Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stores that were purchased by United-Rexall Drug Inc. were those owned and operated by the E. T. Renfro Drug Co. of Fort Worth. As our company, the Renfro Drug Co., Inc., is still operating 13 stores in the state of Texas, we would appreciate a . . . mention of this fact. Like the Fort Worth organization, we are Rexall dealers but all units in our group are Texas-owned and operated...
...than those who cannot. Contemporary-Portuguese literary efforts are scarcely worth the paper they are written on. Portuguese are kept in ignorance of some of the most important world news. Salazar will not let any paper print news about Russia or about Communist activity anywhere. No Portuguese paper mentioned the recent wave of strikes in the U.S. nor any other labor conflict. The United Nations is barely mentioned, because Portugal is not a member. Since there is sometimes courtesy, if not honor, among dictators, Salazar has permitted no mention of the controversy between U.N. and Caudillo Francisco Franco...
Even if both title and cast are downright thrilling, A.R.I, may discover that customers look bored at mention of the proposed story about an unhappy North Dakota farm wife. The manufacturer who persists in going through with such a dubious theme is warned to soft-pedal it in advertising. (Paramount's Double Indemnity suffered when advance publicity tipped off audiences that Fred MacMurray was cast as a heel...
...push people around. Well, I'm people! My name is Norman Corwin, just like anybody else. In a tizzy I called Ralph Ingersoll. 'Hello! Ralph! Baby!' I said, very formally, 'Would you be interested in running my pipsqueak paragraphs for free? I promise not to mention my Technicolor trap [nor] the 50 girls with the 49 costumes.'-O.K., elephant boy,' said Ralph...
...Phillies had begun the season like their stumblebum predecessors by losing 24 times in 32 games. Their new manager, onetime Yankee Ben Chapman, tried everything: he forbade any player even to mention the word cellar, fired three veterans on the team who couldn't shake off that old Philly feeling. His toughest self-assignment: patting pitchers on the back when they got knocked out of the box. Ben Chapman himself had changed since he got kicked out of organized baseball for a year three years ago for slugging an umpire...