Word: exoduses
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...Book, affected seriously by the mass exodus, was finally published shortly before that of '48 but since that time there has been little class activity...
Making the extra helpings possible was an exodus of weekenders that began Wednesday night, and settled by noon of Thanksgiving day to a steady trickle. Despite the best efforts of the State Police, crimson-cravatted hitch-hikers were scattered on most of the southerly roads...
There is no word for immigration in Hebrew, and so "aliyah" meaning "the going up" is always used. This refers to the going up from Egypt to the Promised Land, described in Exodus. "Every one must first make the Exodus from Egypt to really appreciate Palestine" said Chaim Weismann, President of the World Zionist Organization...
S.S.C.&B. was the result of the biggest exodus in recent advertising history: four vice presidents walked out of Ruthrauff & Ryan all at once to start their own agency. Close on their heels went ten other key men and three fat R.&R. accounts. Raymond F. Sullivan, 48, chairman of R.&R.'s plans board, took along the $1.5 million-a-year Noxzema Chemical Co. account, which he had handled for more than 20 years, and the $500,000-a-year billings of Smith Bros. John P. Cohane, 34, brought along the $1.5 million business of the drug division...
Lessons Learned. Admen gossiped that the exodus was at least partly the result of personal differences between those who quit and R.&R.'s President Barry Ryan, who inherited his job from his father, Founder Frederick Behrens Ryan Sr. The founders of S.S.C.&B. denied the rumors, but they promptly adopted a rule against hiring a relative of any member of their new firm...