Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pure" Ivory has always been synonymous with floating soap to the average U.S. citizen. As far back as 1933, Lever experiments with a "different" floating soap had led them to the U.S. Patent Office. In 1940 the company obtained a patent on a "revolutionary" (and still extremely hush-hush) soapmaking process: a "continuous" manufacturing technique that turned out floating soap in a stream of cakes, rather than in batches (brewed separately in caldrons...
...Pearl Harbor has sickened me; seldom have I heard a vital statement, a clear, enlightened pronouncement, recognizing that the rights of minorities are the very things we fight for, and if we deny them what excuse have we to fight? Instead of admitting the strength of pacifists, our leaders hush it up. Why not be proud of it, as Crowe suggests? It is because Americans can be genuinely different, conscientiously individual, that we are a great people...
...Corwin, at what was supposed to be a routine discussion of radio drama, lit into the namby-pamby traditions of radio educators. Speaking before 600 highly placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack on the Fascist within . . . because the Christian Fronter also buys soap." Next he smacked the lordly commentators. "Four destroyers...
This service, even newer than the South Atlantic run, is very hush-hush. Some details are known. Only planes on the run are huge four-engined jobs like Boeing Flying Fortresses, Consolidated Liberators. Regular destination is Australia, although some planes probably go on to China and India. Unlike the South Atlantic ferries-where gas is most of the load-transpacific planes are real air freighters, carry guns, ammunition and repair parts to the fighting front. The run is marvelously fast: only a few days to Australia v. 28 to 35 days by convoyed freighter...
...reason the St. Louis Cardinals give night sweats to managers of other National League clubs is Branch Rickey, a chunky, bespectacled David Harumish man of 60, who is referred to with awed hush in organized baseball as "the Brain." Branch Rickey is full of endless surprises. As vice president and general manager of the Cards, he whisks forth young players nobody ever heard of and makes stars of them; he sells established stars to other clubs for huge sums and laughs when the stars fail to come through for their new owners. To the fury of the St. Louis fans...