Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). First chapter of MARCH OF TIME film based on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's book...
Once before, the Star had done something like that. In 1938, when General John J. Pershing was critically ill in Tucson, the Star had minimized his illness in a special edition of one copy printed for him every day. Last week the Star printed a one-copy edition for Barbara. Said the special story: "Barbara is getting along just fine. She's going to be all right before long." In the Star's regular edition, the rest of Tucson was let in on the secret...
Hadden often pretended ignorance, if he thought a story unclear or inadequate. Once, reading of the death of a general, a survivor of the Crimean War, he demanded a big story and shifted into Brooklynese to tell an editor why. "It ain't duh general, it's duh war," he growled. "Tell 'em what duh Crime...
Prices Down. Many a businessman was beginning to realize that the way to get consumers buying more again-and start up production in slack lines-was to make some more price cuts. Last week Lew Hahn, general manager of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, put this feeling into words...
...corporations turned in more first-quarter earnings reports last week, their performance so far this year looked better & better. General Motors Corp. reported sales of $1.2 billion, the greatest in history. So were its profits: at $136.7 million (v. $96.4 million in 1948-3 first quarter), they were running at $1.5 million...