Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great surprise, most of the dailies were found all too innocent of objectivity, the cardinal virtue in journalism. John Q. Public, who rarely reads editorials, could nevertheless grasp editorial policy through the news columns. Word coloring of stories was discovered; news favorable to policy found prominent display on the front page, while "in acceptable" news was found buried on the inside pages; and letters to the editor approved the paper's position with suspicious frequency. Both Hearst papers, the American and the Record, extensively publicized the anti-repeal activities of the National League of American Mothers, whose home offices were...
...place apparently was an unused garage building, with a big display room up front, and the service shop in back. The front room has the usual U.S.O. equipment-magazines, ping-pong, piano, writing tables, card tables...
...peek-shows were held by General Motors (at Milford, Mich.) and Ford (in Dearborn). Both emphasized the industry's new defense role, showed the new cars along with an impressive display of aircraft engines, machine guns, shells, other war equipment...
...display were 36 75s, converted to anti-tank fire and mounted in armored trucks with tractor treads which could take them nearly anywhere a tank could go (see cut). On tiny "jeeps" and swamp buggies-jeeps with enormous wheels and bus-size tires for mushing through mud and snow-were 18 ordinary anti-tank guns...
...minute glorification of the U.S. Navy air arm and its flight surgeons. Most of it was shot at the Naval Air Station at San Diego. Some of it-especially the scenes aboard the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Saratoga-is almost straight documentary. All of it is an extravagant display of millions of dollars worth of armament gaily photographed in Technicolor...