Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news was announced at the White House at 5:48 p.m. Two networks had it on the air one minute later. Thus in many thousands of U.S. homes the first to hear the news were the children. The flash broke into the regular time for juvenile adventure-stories. That was the end of most commercial radio for four days...
...Nobody Believed It." Two minutes after its first flash, NBC had pink, excitable H. V. Kaltenborn commenting. CBS put a second newscaster on the air four minutes after its first flash; nine minutes later Major George Fielding Eliot...
This first phony peace rumor hardly had a chance to be denied last week before a new one cropped up. In San Francisco, a flash arrived from SHAEF: Eisenhower says Germans are whipped. Hearst's International News Service sent out an announcement that Germany had quit. Los Angeles Radio Station KHJ repeated...
...Council rose to its feet, solemnly recited the Oath of Allegiance, then learned that it had wasted its breath. All over the U.S., War Manpower Commission offices got calls from war workers, asking if they could quit their jobs now. Coming within two hours of each other, the two flashes gave the U.S. its biggest artificial pickup and letdown since the A.P.'s phony D-day flash last June...
...Washington's Chamber of Commerce Building, in the eye-winking glare of flash bulbs, three men signed their names to what may be a historic document. The men: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston, C.I.O. President Philip Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green. The document: a labor-management charter for industrial peace in the postwar world...