Word: gal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution: high-pressure exploitation of Miss Russell's flaring femininity. Result: some 60 magazine articles, innumerable news pictures. The Hays office helped by censoring one or two shots from The Outlaw. When the Hays office objected to a Buetel line, "You borrowed from me; now I borrowed your gal," Hughes changed the line to "Tit for tat." Hastily the Hays censor agreed the first version...
Wine, then $6,400,000 for Roma Wine (biggest U.S. winery) and $4,000,000 for Central Winery. Not to be outdone, National Distillers bought two big wineries, including Italian Swiss Colony. Results: 1) the distillers now own 25%of all U.S. wine-making capacity (some 200,000,000 gal. annually); 2) the wine industry is shifting from a ramshackle collection of hundreds of large and small units into a fast-moving business with big capital, big production and nationwide distribution...
...lasts that long it would mean no whiskey to sell, dry rot in costly distributing organizations and the fade-out of valuable trade names. So the distillers went after wine with a rush. And they picked a good thing: U.S. wine consumption has jumped from 66,000,000 gal. in 1937 to 111,000,000 gal. last year, and demand is still going...
...exclusive contract basis. The solution: Caniff, beginning last week, draws a lusty, weekly strip for Army newspapers but calls it Male Call, gives his characters names not used in the regular Terry strip. To replace Terry's beautiful, bosomy Burma, there will be a dark, Orientalish, bosomy Caniff gal who will cavort in usual Burma fashion, wisecrack as lustily as the Army-version Burma...
with at least a year's weekly experience on news and ads needed badly to assist publisher of good weekly. Prefer gal who is a perfect 36, beautiful, smart, willing to work for $5 a week, interested in weekly papers. Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, white or colored. Because of the war we might waive some or all preferences. Office is cold in winter, hot as hell in summer, the toughest weekly joint in the state to work in because we're ornery. We also expect perfection in other folks. We serve beer when the 40-year...