Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candid. Samples were the story of the tragic shooting down of U.S. airborne troops by friendly antiaircraft batteries off Sicily which the Army and the Navy covered up for eight months; the Patton soldier-slapping affair, suppressed until it had built up so much steam it almost blew the dome off the Capitol. Another sample was the sour finale to Merrill's Marauders (TIME, Aug. 14). A more recent one: the handling of the production-slump story, which, instead of rousing the public to greater effort, provoked controversy and mistrust. A continuing one: overoptimistic sounding-off by various brass...
...will now be distributed by wire instead of mail mimeograph. Before, my column had to be written five days ahead. Now it will be about a day and a half." Most of his 600 subscribing newspapers, he thinks, will continue to carry the column, even though Bell will charge dome of them slightly higher rates...
...Pleasure Dome? In Mineola, N.Y., county-fair officials sought a new and better name for the "Ladies' Building," traditional exhibition place for needlework and preserves...
Died. Earle Westwood Sinclair, 70, longtime president of Sinclair Oil Refining Co.; after a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his partner-brother, dashing Harry Sinclair (see above), was bogged down with the trials and tribulations of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, he quietly managed and built their business into one of the world's great oil empires...
Montparnasse's three famed cafes-the Dome, the Rotonde, the Coupole-were doing business as usual under their striped awnings, although they closed during the street fighting. The supply of painted filles seemed ample to accommodate all soldiers interested in amour. In the Rue Scribe the American Express office still had its familiar big sign on the roof. The hotels were comfortably appointed, with plenty of linen and blankets, even satin quilts...