Word: hawkinge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Indianapolis, Mrs. Marietta Buchanan, whose son was lost in the Pacific, cried with rage: "I'd like to fly over there and drop more bombs myself." In Tulsa, a newsboy hawking extras cried out: "Japs Surrendering." Asked a woman war worker: "Are there comics in this paper?"
What Field got for his money (guesstimated price: $100,000) was an old-fashioned print shop in Montgomery, Ala. and an old-fashioned farm journal that loses a nickel on every 25?-a-year subscription but makes it all back and more in advertising at $2.50 a column inch. Two...
We waited in our stuffy compartment-a middle-aged U.S. captain, a clean-cut colonel, Graham Barrow of Reuters and I-and were thoroughly miserable. Peddlers were hawking cucumbers, wheat cakes and tea to the Chinese soldiers jammed on flatcars and boxcars. Up front the tired locomotive leaked steam at...
Old Story. The military coup which sent Castillo back into obscurity had, in proud Argentina, all the earmarks of a revolt in a banana republic. Early one morning 7,000 troops moved out of the Campo de Mayo barracks to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Led by General Arturo Rawson...
Record sales soared like a soprano saxophone cadenza during the month past. Decca twice and Columbia once postponed new popular releases, pleading a rush of orders. One reason for the boom: anticipation of the Federal 10% tax on discs which went into effect Oct. 1. With the announced aim of...