Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again Juan Peron was sharpening his ax for the stately, 77-year-old royal oak of Latin American journalism. He had an old score to settle. In October 1945, just before Peron's two-day fall from power, La Prensa had thundered that the Government should be turned over to the Supreme Court. Furious, Juan Peron had replied: "I shall not permit La Prensa to shout the Government down." He has never forgotten. It would have been hard to forget, for La Prensa has been the oak around which much of Peron's opposition has rallied, perhaps...
...postwar crop of magazine hopefuls, that left only one big one still budding: Marshall Field's U.S.A., a sort of New Dealing Satevepost, which hopes to reach the stands this fall...
...queen (Tallulah Bankhead) has been living secludedly, half in love with easeful Death, for the ten years since her young husband was assassinated on their honeymoon. But she and the poet (Helmut Dantine) who has now come to assassinate her, fall madly in love. He rouses her to life, prompts her to assert her will in her conspiracy-ridden kingdom, then cowers at the thought that their love cannot last. Finding that he has taken poison, the queen goads him into shooting...
Until last fall, giant RCA was well on its way to raising baby its own way. It controlled many a patent on black & white television broadcasting and reception, had a huge investment in manufacturing black & white receivers...
...last week the price of wheat hit a 30-year high of $3.05 a bushel at Chicago. Then it began to drop. It plummeted 34½? from the high in two days in its biggest drop since the fall of France...