Word: lines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trunks Extra? In Washington, the ICC recommended that the ferry line between Weehawken, N.J. and Manhattan help meet higher operating costs by increasing the fare for uncrated elephants from...
...them had never heard of Editor Leech-let alone been interviewed by him-until he attacked their policies and programs in print. In Pittsburgh last week, Leech defended his legwork. Said he: "I kept away from top politicians in both parties...[They] only give you the official party line...I tried hardest to see plain people, to drop into pubs and strike up conversations, to sit on benches in Hyde Park...I don't think there is any serious charge in my whole series that hasn't been printed in British newspapers and magazines...Nobody was more surprised...
Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long gazed upward with Red stars in his eyes,* took a searching look about him at the state of science in a world of ideological struggle and bounced off the party line...
Plastic Sidelines. Dozens of old-line companies are riding the new range, and many a small company has fattened up on it. Jersey City's Esquire Novelty Co. last year put out 1,500,000 holsters at $1 to $10 apiece. Pennsylvania's Hubley Manufacturing Co., biggest maker of repeating cap pistols, last year turned out about...
...teamed up with Lloyd Easterling, an office supplies dealer, and they began making Boot-sters as a sideline. Soon it became their main line. From $75,000 in the first nine months, sales streaked to $250,000 last year. Now Boot-ster has added plastic cowboy cuffs, lariats and spurs, expects to gross $1,000,000 this year...