Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Krock broadcast from the men's room of a hotel. He is frank in describing his troubles with the round-the-world flight of Howard Hughes, which started out as an NBC exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would...
...tons last year from Michigan brine wells, is now building a plant at Freeport, Tex., to extract another 6,500 tons a year from the Gulf's salt water. When the Freeport and Kaiser-Reilly plants are going full blast, U. S. production will jump to at least 25,000 tons a year, four times the U. S.'s 1940 output and about equal to Germany...
Coca-Cola first thought the jump from bottling to bagging incongruous, suggested it could work better with drugs, foods or chemicals. But the Army stood pat. It had made a study of management, found Coca-Cola on its first preferred master list, must put Coca-Cola to work at once. Coca-Cola saw the moral-no industry is exempt from defense-and concurred...
From a Lowell, Mass, admirer came prompt reaction in grave scrawl to Wendell Willkie's Lincoln Day address: "Dear Mr. Willkie, Your speech last night was very good. I heard my grandfather jump up and down. The poor cat and dog were scared stiff. In the afternoon I went out and slid with a tin pan. I am nine years old, and am in the fourth grade. Sincerely yours, Hilda Thompson...
...this point Capra-Riskin ran into trouble. In the original version the girl's lovelorn pleading worked. But a preview-audience felt that the ending was not strong enough for what had preceded. For a while Capra-Riskin thought they would have to make Doe jump. They finally landed on the present ending-the girl not only tells Doe of her love but also reminds him that what he is trying to do has already been done, unsurpassably -by Jesus...