Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall Street, where he became a banker, a promoter and a tycoon. In 1920 he moved in on Lee Tire & Rubber Co. In 1933, with Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium, he acquired control of Madison Square Garden. He helped pull Paramount Pictures out of a $100 million hole, along the way picked up Brentano's book stores...
Like legendary Paul Bunyan, Roy Cullen found a way to make money out of dry fields. Paul Bunyan had hitched his blue ox, Babe, to a dry hole, pulled the hole out of the ground, and sawed it up for pestholes. Cullen's method was simpler -and more effective. When he saw a dry hole he just drilled deeper...
...Black Hole. As a writer of fiercely topical satire for a windblown medium, Allen has acquired, in spite of his protests, considerable stature. His work has an angry, big-city clank, a splashy neon idiom and a sort of 16-cylinder poetry. Like a well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats in his forest of steel-&-concrete trees, grinning them such a grin as they have seldom had to bear. It is certainly a grin as wide as Shaw's, if less thoughtful-and quite as bitter as Swift's, if less profound...
...star candidate in right-handed Pitcher Art Houtteman. Of all places, he will play in Detroit, which many think already has the best pitching staff (Newhouser, Trout, Trucks, etc.) in baseball. The Boston Red Sox, rated even money to win their pennant again, hope to fill their big hole in right field with an ex-Marine rookie, Sabath ("Sam") Mele...
Very few seemed shocked, or even particularly surprised, by the President's plea for aid to Greece and Turkey (see The Presidency). But the national mood was one of resignation and apathy rather than enthusiasm. Muttered a Chicago commuter: "More sand down the rat hole." Said an ex-soldier, now a student at the University of Oklahoma: "Well, I told my wife to dust off my uniform...