Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comics had become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
...Faculty Club, the Republican Senate policy-maker pleaded the case of grass-roots "freedom from bureaucracy" in an off-the-cuff ten-minute talk. "No matter what course we chart in this crucial hour," he declared, "the one inviolate must be the power of communities to run their own affairs...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation...
...cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing squads...
...Antonio Bermudez, the hard-hitting whiskey maker who bosses Pemex, the solution was plain: he had to bring U.S. oilmen, and their know-how and capital, back into Mexico-if he could find anyone willing to come in under the restrictive law. In Mexico City recently he met suave J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N.Y., a veteran dealer in oil royalties. Jones talked so persuasively about oil that Bermudez decided that he was the man. Last week Bermudez announced the first U.S.-Mexican oil contract since the expropriation...