Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zion's Herald Boston...
...same time, reported the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune rather ominously, six crude, homemade bombs were found in Paris, their chief ingredients coming from a brand of French fire extinguisher called "Knock-out." Paris authorities refused to confirm the bomb story, but Britain took it seriously. A feeling of anger swept the country like the one over the recent hanging of two British sergeants in Palestine. London announced that Britain's air defenses had been alerted...
...were making rain by simply dropping 100-lb. loads of pulverized dry ice (solidified carbon dioxide) into cumulus clouds, thus precipitating ice crystals which turn into rain. This week, sweltering Chicago got an 8-to-18 degree break in a heat wave just when a plane hired by the Herald-American brought man-made rain. The Herald-American, of course, claimed the credit. For days previously, others had been doing...
...babies had been born. Around 50 more would be born in the ten to 14 days it would take the ships to reach Hamburg, according to Port-de-Bouc's Dr. Jean Cayla. The environment they would be born into was described vividly by the New York Herald Tribune's Ruth Gruber. Visiting the Runnymede Park just before sailing time, she reported: "We picked our way gingerly over people lying on the floor on dirty blankets. . . . While we walked the people kept shouting: 'Don't stand up here! This is good, there is air here! Come...
CAPONE MOB COMING BACK, shouted the black streamer below it. The kind of newsbreak that Howey & Co. knew how to play to the limit had come along at just the right time. Four former henchmen of Al Capone had been paroled from prison, and the Herald was sure that they -and maybe even gunplay-were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent...