Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio's eyebrows were raised last week: the boom in sustaining programs, the wallflowers of the industry, kept right on booming. For the 21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let's Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat...
...arrival and a departure made airmen in India nod and grin last week. To India, without previous announcement, went able, soldierly Major General George E. Stratemeyer, fresh from his post as Chief of Staff for General H. H. Arnold in Washington. His new job: chief air officer in the India-Burma-China theater (comprising the Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces...
...Government kept looking the other way, but the black market was still there. Finally, last week, the black market got a cold but official nod. Checking Manhattan poultry sales, the Market News Service (backed by the U.S. Agriculture Department and War Food Administration) reported bluntly: "Market extremely firm at prevailing black market prices...
Congress had a busy, statesmanlike week, and something to show for it: a mighty heave to raise taxes; a tentative nod toward postwar world cooperation; a jarring blow at John L. Lewis...
Theologians deny this, try to "trace the finger of God in all historical events." Some economists deny it too, talk about "forces." But, says Hook, with a nod at Thomas Carlyle, the investigator of his tory, instead of arriving at "forces" finds some single individual like bearded old Karl Marx...