Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are, as yet, no reports of black markets, except in tires, and these might disappear if there is national gas rationing. There is chiseling on gasoline on the East Coast right now: in many places it is easy to get a full tank any time. But what will happen by autumn, when more goods are rationed, when many disappear entirely...
Your story about Hedda Hopper (TIME, May 25) gives the impression that my good friend John Chapman was dropped along with his column. Hedda Hopper's gossip may have triumphed over John Chapman's facts, but I happen to know that the New York Daily News is not dropping fact fancier John Chapman. I think Chapman readers would be pleased to know this fact...
...Shinwell walked across the House of Commons and smacked Commander Bower so hard on the ear that his eardrum burst. The Commander took to his bed and issued bulletins on the state of his health; later he felt it necessary to say: "This is an example of what may happen if the Socialists...
Morgan could happen only to Mutual, least hidebound of the networks. Until last April, he was an on-&-off Mutual attraction. Fifteen minutes after he jabbered his jabberwacky over WOR for local sponsors, he repeated the show for the network. Theoretically, Mutual offered Here's Morgan to local sponsors, but there was only one taker-a beer distributor in Hawaii. So two months ago Morgan refused to continue the repeat broadcasts, contented himself with his sponsored WOR show...
...This is a typographical innovation that may meet with a certain amount of opinionated disapproval at first as it necessitates going through the book twice. We recommend as a solution reading it through an ordinary stereoscope, which can be purchased at your local novelty store if you don't happen to have one lying about the house. This will make the copy thoroughly legible and is also a reliable cure for astigmatism...