Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst's sons had known all along. So had his editorial chieftains. But the secret was being kept from the old man. Last week Albert Deutsch, the New York Post Home News's medical columnist (TiME, Aug. 9), exposed this "capital irony...
...directors against Trippe. They felt that Trippe was spending too much on new planes and routes, instead of on dividends. They shunted Trippe aside and Whitney took over. But Whitney was unable to take over the thousand & one details of Pan Am's far-flung operations which Trippe kept in his head...
...news of Gold Rush Album is that such superb pictorial records of the migration were kept. Editor Jackson's collection begins with pastoral glimpses of California, includes the early accounts of the discovery of gold, and scenes along the various routes-the Lassen Road, the Salt Lake-Los Angeles road, the southwestern route through Santa Fe, Tucson and Fort Yuma, the route across the Isthmus, the voyages around the Cape. It includes as well such unexpected items as eleven pages of the work of two Cuban artists, Augusto Ferran and Jose Baturone, whose quaintly bearded, drunken and belligerent miners...
...woman suddenly began to set fire to anything that would burn. Halfway from the Missouri to the goldfields, the number of abandoned wagons increased noticeably. Some of the outfits began to shoot their dogs -the barking caused too many of the travelers' cattle to stampede. But the caravans kept coming...
First there were crashes and shorts from the Orchestra. Little men kept fitting offstage to play a few bars in the wings. Gradually the din dropped to a murmur. Then it happened...