Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, Dolly Thackrey reached out. She snapped up some of the Chicago Daily News's once famed foreign staff, expanded the Post's foreign coverage and started a syndicate. She bought Brooklyn's tiny radio station WLIB and the Bronx Home News, a neighborhood paper that concentrates on marriages and bingo parties. She tried and failed to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, then as a consolation prize bought two radio stations, Los Angeles' KMTR and San Francisco's KYA (FCC approval of the purchases is pending...
...behind the stunt is jut-jawed Editor John W. McPherrin, whose theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
...played around with a neighborhood gang called the "Filthy Five," did so well at his books that he got himself admitted briefly to Georgia Tech before he had finished high school...
...Angeles was the girl he calls "the little woman." Ecstatic Jeanie Mauldin awaited him in a cheap little house in a drab neighborhood-the only place she could find in the housing shortage. She had lived on Bill's allotment, putting his earnings in the bank. With her was chubby Bruce Patrick, 21 months, the son Bill Mauldin had never seen...
...year-olds harried her with questions. What are the different parts of an airplane? How can a pilot see at night? What does the propeller do? How do radio and weather men help the pilot? Who invented the first airplane? The teacher collected all the aviation books in the neighborhood and worked out the answers with the help of her class. A scrapbook was made up to show the whole history of aviation. Soon the children could identify planes and parts at a glance, had learned how to keep weather charts, and were able to conduct experiments in air pressure...