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Free Press. Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga. He bought a dairy to supply his stores with milk, a bakery to bake his bread, a laundry, a tire and gasoline company. He saw no use in paying good money to advertise in the papers...
...Grocer McDonald started giving away a little weekly sheet of his own, the Free Press. Other stores around Chattanooga began to advertise in the Free Press, and McDonald brought it out twice a week. About that time Publisher Milton's News was in the midst of a hot fight against Tennessee Electric Power Co. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's mammoth Commonwealth & Southern) in behalf of a municipal power system...
Strong for verisimilitude, Joanne interviewed the local judge to learn how judges talk, the local grocer to learn the idiom of grocers. By autumn of 1939 she had put all the pieces of paper together, laboriously typed out (by hunt and peck) their 15,000 words...
...partial reward. . . . [But] the U. S. . . . came to Panama with the fiscal and economic power to ruin or succor a dozen or more republics whose trade ties and money links with Germany . . . had been completely disrupted by the War . . . Uncle Sam had suddenly become the only banker and grocer on his street." Unchanged remain the bottom facts that: 1) South Americans are culturally attached to Europe, not at all to the U. S.; 2) South Americans still deeply resent being "semicolonials" of U. S. business...
...Little Berthas" and fresh troops from Siberia and the Caucasus, trained for bitter-weather fighting. To launch his new offensive he sent 38-year-old General Gregory Stern, who until recently was commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, gave the Japanese a good trouncing at Changkufeng. (His grocer brother Morris, unearthed in a Los Angeles suburb last week, said: "I don't like it. Finland is a democratic country. Why don't they leave her alone...