Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news hit, the telephone operators in Arco's one-room exchange above the Dee Hotel plugged in every line in Butte County, ringing telephones all up & down the Big Lost River Valley. A man from Pocatello, who had just been offered a one-story building for $10,000, walked across the street to look at another site. When he got back, he found the price had jumped to $17,500. Soon, jalopies were pounding into town and Arco's streets were jammed with jubilant wheat farmers and ranchers, shouting, cheering and recklessly counting their future wealth...
...Open Road. One day, consumed with the U.S. passion for setting records, he decided to hit the road and crack at least one safe in every state. Up to then he had worked in 15 states all told. "I used to be a great one for two and three and four a night," boasted Parry. "One night I made them 205 miles apart." He made as little as 55? and as much as $26,000 in a haul. Having widened his field, he was in New Hampshire with only Vermont to go when he decided to pass up Vermont...
...salesman's magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right. You've hit the nail on the head.' Next thing you know, the whole room is full of Senators working like mad to help Paul Hoffman solve his problems...
...Hit-&-Run. On the contrary, Argentine hit-&-run trading had damaged ties with these countries. Chile, for example, was trying to get along with less Argentine beef, and Uruguay without Argentine tourists. Even Paraguay, virtually an Argentine colony, was turning more & more to Brazil. Brazil herself, Argentina's best customer in Latin America, muttered angrily over the recent Argentine emergency decree blocking off all imports...
...Fallen Idol (Korda; S.R.O.), when Sir Alexander Korda released it last year in London, was a tremendous hit. Most of the enthusiastic raves were for a nine-year-old, towheaded actor named Bobby Henrey. The rest of the praise went to Author Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter), who supplied a fascinating story, and to Director Carol Reed (Night Train), who for sheer virtuosity outdid himself. Most of the uproar, it turns out, was solidly justified...