Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post Jimmy R. sounded good. The postscript became an article on James Roosevelt's thumping success in the insurance business. Last week Reporter Johnston's article (TIME, July 4), published in the Post with none of the author's charges changed or deleted, got more attention in the U. S. press than any magazine article in recent years...
Next day, 342 eligible writers employed at Hollywood's 14 active studios solemnly cast their votes. Screen Writers Guild got 271 votes, a thumping majority at every studio. Result of the bickering: President Nichols promptly offered to "bury the hatchet," form a unified organization; President Mahin retorted that "the fight has just begun," promised to take it to the courts...
Four years ago John Vincent Lawless Hogan, a plump, soft-spoken radio engineer, got a license to operate a small experimental television station in Long Island City. To accompany his experimental television broadcasts Engineer Hogan used phonograph records. Because he could not think as well to jazz, Engineer Hogan used symphonic records. Not many people were equipped to receive his television broadcasts, but many radio listeners tuned in on his symphonic accompaniments...
...equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that the steel was actually being delivered from a Chicago plant next door. In 1924 FTC got around to jumping on "Pittsburgh Plus." Thereupon the industry developed the basing-point system whereby prices were quoted at some 80 steel-plant centres and a consumer paid the price of the nearest basing-point plus freight...
...States, to Lawrenceville and Sewanee, returning during vacations to Batopilas, where in the evenings they promenaded around the plaza with the young men of the town, while the band played and the young ladies eyed their admirers. They danced, trained fighting cocks, learned to drink. Sometimes they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer in the band, and landed in the bass drum; when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order...