Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep Gentile & Binge in satire for years. Superman occasionally turns up on the program with a heavy Bronx accent. Guest celebrities are interviewed and thrown out of the studio to the sound of a shirt ripping. Weakling children who eat "Tasty Bread" will not merely grow strong, they will begin juggling locomotives. A new electric iron is just the thing for straightening out crumpled car fenders, etc. Gentile & Binge repeatedly make advertising copy writers wonder if they have been hired under false pretenses...
...contained six-year-old Joel Kupperman, youngest of the radio Quiz Kids, took his first long train trip, was spellbound by the porter's berth-making technique. In Manhattan the Chicago prodigy told newsmen that he planned to be a farmer when he grew up. "I want to grow food and supplies for the Army for the next war," said he. This one, he thought, might...
...much book trouble. A bodacious, bawdacious leg show would be more in keeping with the times. In any case, "Away We Go" is an operetta, pure and simple, at its best, witty and charming, and at its worst, prime for a severe blue-pencilling. Not knowing Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," the basis of the libretto, one cannot vouch for the faithfulness of the adaptation, only for its unevenness and absurdity...
Within about three months the Salinas mill will have ground its way through all the guayule now available (it takes two to three years to grow to commercial size). But if the Government's growing program in the Southwest pans out, there will be enough to produce 21,000 tons in late 1944, and perhaps 80,000 tons...
Customers for big-league ball clubs do not grow on trees. But scarcely had the ink dried on the Nugents' check (guestimate: $39,000) when a half-dozen syndicates were scrambling for the Philly franchise. After several days Manhattan Socialite William Drought Cox, 33-year-old lumber broker who lost a reported $40,000 in the defunct New York Yankee professional football team, chirped up: "I'm the lucky...