Word: looping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foggy night last week a fleet of shiny, grass-green news trucks started careening out of the loading tunnel of the Daily News Building, roared into Chicago's Loop, swerved with loud honking to crash halts at crowded newsstands. "Yo!" yelled the drivers, "the Sun is out!" Fat bundles of papers pitched to the sidewalk, melted like snow on a griddle a few minutes after they were ripped open. Sometimes the newsstand crowd cheered. Chicago was grabbing Vol. 1, No. 1 of Marshall Field's new 2? morning paper, the Tribune-challenging Chicago...
...swamped with telephone calls demanding to know why home deliveries were not being made. Fact is that a home delivery service is a major organization job, and not even the "Great Stenbuck" can build one short of months. Loop newsstands suddenly refused to handle the Sunday Sun ("The Tribune did it," said Publisher Evans). And although the Sun built 2,000 wooden stands for such an emergency, it had to beat a city ordinance requiring steel stands...
Topics have ranged from the spiritual and economic future of Britain to the flight of the house fly. A bomber-command pilot stirred up a national crisis in entomology by asking "How does a fly land on a ceiling? Does it loop the loop, or what?" This was a poser to all the experts, including Professor Huxley, and the more they thought about it the less sure they became. That night, in pubs all over England, flies were shooed zealously toward ceilings, fly-watchers argued long...
...salaries lower. Favorite to win the title for the fourth successive year are the Cleveland Barons, owned by Cleveland Inkman Albert Sutphin and managed by Bill Cook, onetime Ranger star. For several years, the National League has tried to get Cleveland to join its lopsided seven-team loop. But Owner Sutphin has turned a deaf...
...personal management of Timothy Q. Mouse, a rough rodent of the Jimmy Durante school and a vigorous new Disney character, Dumbo discovers what his ears are good for-flying. This time he takes off from his window high in the burning building like an angry dive-bomber, turning, banking, looping the loop, and finally machine-gunning the other performers with peanuts sucked into his trunk from the vendor's cart...