Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's press lords, like their millions of readers, spend more time over their comic strips than over their editorial pages. The late Captain Joseph M. Patterson guided his comics (Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland...
...crystal ball but a mechanical monster did the trick. TIME'S fast-moving printers managed to get the news into 72% of all copies...
...narrow, cobbled streets of Boston were clogged with traffic. Last week, as every week, it jammed ceaselessly at downtown intersections, honking, lurching and stinking up the fine autumn mornings. Boston's first citizen, small, erect, beak-nosed Charles Francis Adams III, regarded the monster warily. He had never learned to drive a car, and at 80 had no intention of learning. Neither was he enamored of taxicabs, nor of the modern habit of leaping into one every time it rained. He liked to begin his day (after rising promptly at 6:45 in his stately house in suburban Concord...
...Bases. Molotov began to bend. He agreed with the U.S.-British view that only trifling changes should be made in the Austrian-Italian border. As a result, the Big Four turned down Vienna's demand for the controversial southern Tyrol, in spite of monster demonstrations at Innsbruck...
Convair's unconventional 160-ton monster will have a range of 10,000 miles and a speed of around 300 miles an hour. Test flights will start this summer. If the tests are successful, Convair will build another prototype. Then it will tool up to fill an Army order for a fleet of planes to cost hundreds of millions...