Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station in the world; the Post-Gazette through WWSW; and Hearst's Sun-Telegraph through Hearst's WCAE. Then came the Press-Radio "truce" which forbade radio networks to give more than a smattering of news each day (TIME, Feb. 12). The Pittsburgh newspapers and their stations fell obediently into line...
...Norman C. Norman. New to the highest court in the land, he opened the argument, choked over some of his words, swallowed others, was obviously abashed. The other sack-suited pleader was Attorney Perry arguing his own case, which he did with maximum brevity, maximum precision. Most embarrassing moment fell to James H. McIntosh, senior partner of the Manhattan firm of Alexander & Green and counsel for Bankers Trust. With learned dignity he made his argument and, in spite of apparent difficulty in pronouncing sibilant words, came to his peroration: "If you hold this resolution Constitutional, Congress will have...
...Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell to the tobacco industry during and after the nerve-racking years of the War. Since 1913 nearly every major brand has adopted the fundamental Camel merchandising and blending idea...
...President Roosevelt indicated that he would first try a less earth-shaking method of regulation. Production control by interstate pacts, the industry's own nostrum now being advocated by Oklahoma's Governor Marland, seemed out as far as Washington was concerned. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, who fell over himself last year declining the honor of sponsoring the Administration's oil measure, introduced a joint resolution to provide the Government with a valid basis for reinforcing State proration laws at State lines. But what the President really wants is the power to 1) fix production quotas...
...star fell very suddenly in brightness-by more than a magnitude in a day, it seems, or about three times faster than it had risen...