Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Chile-Argentine border Cameraman Bill Larsen of R.K.O.-Pathe News writes that he reads TIME'S Air Express Edition on burro-back at 4,000 meters (13,000 feet to me) up in the Andes...
...gold nugget at Sutter's Mill. The town had grown richer in the raw, exciting days of the Comstock and Mother Lodes. Proud of the independence its riches brought, it had still reached for contact with the eastern U.S., first by stagecoach, then by the pony express, then by the transcontinental railroad...
...addition to flying TIME south from Honolulu we have also just launched a new Northern Air Express Edition to fly TIME north from Seattle to Alaska-to get copies to subscribers in that territory and across the border in Canada's Yukon by Friday or Saturday, a week to ten days earlier than ever before...
...Beaverbrook got along fine for a time, singing and drinking together. In expiation for his Tory flirtations, Michael Foot anonymously wrote two books that damned Tories as appeasers at best, fascists at worst. Beaverbrook put him out to pasture, in the lush acres of his morning paper, the Daily Express (circulation: 3,000,000). Eight months later, Foot booted his ?3,000 job, went to work for the Laborite Daily Herald...
...though the Beaver hates the cooperative movement. Elliott lasted as long as Beaverbrook was pouring his immense vitality into the war effort. Through most of the war Churchill has leaned heavily on Beaverbrook. But last month the Beaver decided that the foreign war was going well enough for his Express to pay more attention to the domestic wars, and opened his recruiting campaign for the Conservative Party with a frontpage editorial: "The Daily Express . . . refuses to conform to the current worship of the state. . . ." Leftist Sydney Elliott decided that it was time to go. Said he last week...