Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overnight, something new has come to this ancient and despairing land, something that gives a new snap to the salutes of Egyptian soldiers and has brought the new government 50,000 grateful letters-in a country where only one in six can write. For the first time in living memory, there is hope in Egypt...
...feature spot with Tony Pastor's band led to a contract with Columbia Records (where among her other chores she did children's songs). Last year she recorded a strange ditty called Come on-a My House.* It sold 1,000,000 copies and boosted Rosemary almost overnight to national stardom...
...Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover boom. The depression, Democrats jeered, was the Hoover depression. The huddled shanties near the railroad tracks, where ragged men cooked garbage over old oil drums, were called Hoovervilles...
Quick Curl. The Gillette Co. put on sale the Bobbi Pin-Curl home permanent, which eliminates the need for bulky curlers and a neutralizing solution. A woman simply applies the waving lotion, puts her hair up in special bobby pins and gets a wave overnight. Price...
...delegates behind Ike Eisenhower or Bob Taft might decide who gets the nomination. Which side of the fence John Fine will climb off is a burning question in the G.O.P. today. This lifelong machine politician, a miner's son from northeast Pennsylvania's brawling coal country, almost overnight has become a national figure, the biggest Boy in the nation's Backroom...