Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow Etonians, inspected some antiaircraft guns at Leeds. They used their observations for a 900-word lead story in the August issue of Harewood News, illustrating it with cute pictures of a gun and a bomber. A copy of the News found its way to the Manchester Daily Express, which sent the story to its London office, which sent a reporter to the War Office...
Without revealing the source of the story the Express's, reporter presented it as a hypothetical case. The War Office took a "grave view," pointed out that the story gave the number and location of more than one gun, which constituted the publication of an official secret. This was just what the Express needed for a good story of its own. Next day the London papers picked it up. Headlined the Evening Standard: WAR OFFICE BUYS COPY OF THE HAREWOOD NEWS. Below were pictures of the publishers...
...American Express has done "easily half" the Fair business it had anticipated. Since the Fair opened, Baltimore & Ohio traffic has been double 1938; Pennsylvania Railroad up 20%; New York Central a meagre...
...Albania was seized by the Italians last April. Having spent most of the time since his flight from Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route from Istanbul to Paris would have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal route of such a journey, however, is through the Strait of Messina, on one side...
Last fortnight Lord Beaverbrook's Hearst-like London Sunday Express demanded that hopelessly unfit oldsters should be retired at once in favor of nimbler men, who, as directors of industry, would then be exempt from the draft. Suggesting that shareholders look over their boards of directors, the Express advised a test: "Ask the chairman if he can ride a bicycle. If he can't, then get a new chairman...