Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given the lie to the starched double-doubters who had cried that Los Angeles was a gaudy but impractical contraption which would inevitably collapse, trapping swarms of blondes and bare-toed yogis in its wreckage. It has become an industrial giant, has attracted not only new people (949,585 in Los Angeles County since Pearl Harbor), but new money, new business, and $450 million in factories and machinery since...
Judy's ever-restless hands stopped waving. "It's a damn lie," she screamed. Little Archie was on his feet yelling his objections. From the courtroom, the voice of Judy's mother rose in a piercing wail. Judge Albert Reeves threatened to have Mrs. Rebecca Coplon removed and warned her to keep quiet. Kelley's flat voice persisted. Didn't Judy also spend the night of Jan. 8 with Shapiro in Philadelphia? Didn't she spend New Year's Eve with Shapiro "in fornication in an apartment of a friend...
...real trouble with British exports to dollar areas does not lie in exchange rates, but in Britain's high production costs. Get away from currency entirely and express these in man-hours per unit produced. The British product costs more than the U.S. product because British production is less efficient. No matter how she fiddles with the currencies, Britain cannot expand her U.S. market on a long-range basis until real costs are cut by more efficient machines, management and labor. The present crisis is a powerful pressure on British management and labor to become more efficient. Devaluation...
...Zurich, gossipy rumors of a tiff between Cinemactress Jennifer Jones, 30, and her boss, Cinemagnate David O. Selzniclc, 47, prompted a strong statement from him: "It's an absolute big lie that Miss Jones and I have had or are having any disagreement. We are great friends and always have been . . . The date of our marriage has not been fixed. To decide upon that is up to the lady...
...time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf of the B-36 would be rewarded with the presidency of a "huge aircraft combine," Symington said flatly: "The report is a lie...