Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine promotion was never sent out, and last week Columnist Lyons switched syndicates from King Features to McNaught. The trouble originated with Publisher Hearst, summering in northern California. He was getting madder & madder at Lyons. Lyons had made friendly mention no less than 41 times since Jan. 1 of Orson Welles, producer of the movie Citizen Kane, allegedly based on Hearst's strange career. That was tactless at least of Columnist Lyons...
What with the moon and parachute flares (not to mention incendiary bombs and London-sized targets), blackouts are no good, anyhow. So let's substitute light-outs. When bombers come, turn on all lights. Install more lights to turn on. Make earth and sky one luminous hell for enemy pilots. Blind them with clustered searchlights. Fool them with lights around empty fields. Simply by lighting up everything, obscure all worthwhile targets...
...have seen British warships putting into East Coast ports where there are U.S. Navy yards-putting in for supplies, overhaul, repairs of battle and storm damage. But only over the bellowing body of Secretary of the Navy Knox (see p. 41) could any paper mention any of them. So it remained for a higher authority to give the public an idea of how much was going...
...hazard a guess at steel needs for 1943 or later. It took the view that Britain (which had to suspend imports of finished steel for two months this spring for lack of ships) would continue to need only 381,000 tons per month from the U.S. It made no mention of another basic argument for greatly increased capacity: the progressive deterioration of older, overstrained mills...
...rumor that Halifax would receive an honorary degree has been in circulation for some time, although no mention had been made of the President. Believing that this rumor is well founded, the Student Union has already started a petition in opposition to giving Halifax a degree. The names of recipients of honorary degrees are never revealed until Commencement Day itself, however...