Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader's Digest for December will print the biggest magazine run on record-5,440,000 copies for its, U.S. edition alone (plus 200,000 more for its British edition and 400,000 more in Spanish for Latin America). The U.S. copies will go for: subscriptions, 3,400,000; newsstand, 1,400,000; schools, 640,000. Newsstand sales are running 73% above a year...
...Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already...
...Chairman Fly does not work that way. For radiomen to digest over last weekend, he and a majority of the Commission (four of six) issued an amended set of regulations, to go into effect Nov. 15, on which FCC was obviously prepared for a showdown. Columbia Broadcasting System immediately signified its intention to seek an injunction against FCC in a Federal court. The battle was joined...
...Wood withdrew to digest his reports, the President called a White House conference of members from both parties. To them he would put his ideas, weigh their opinions and objections. The decision called for all the statesmanship he possessed. He could risk everything now on one smashing fight to repeal the entire act-which his advisers held would be an enormous boost to the morale of all the world. Or he could move as he has been moving, step by step, whittling the act's barriers away one by one. The first choice would involve great risks. Even defeat...
Protestant Digest New York City...