Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Byers told a bankruptcy court that the Senator had lost $5,500 shooting craps with the witness' son, Bob Jr., but had brazenly welshed on the debt. He also said that he helped McCarthy write the famed pamphlet on housing regulations for which Lustron Corp., a now defunct outfit which set RFC back $37.5 million, paid the Senator $10,000. McCarthy never coughed up a cent of that, either, said Byers...
...soon graduated from secretary to personnel work. When American switched its headquarters from Chicago to New York's La Guardia Airport, it sent her ahead to survey housing, recreation facilities, churches, etc., in the area. She wrote a pamphlet giving all the answers, bossed the move of 700 employees, with scarcely a hitch. When American opened an administrative office in Washington in 1942, she was picked to help run it. She dealt expertly with government agencies, got to know important people in & out of Congress, became an accomplished lobbyist for the airline's projects...
...pool, we sat on the edge while the businessman stressed that MacArthur was one of the best products of America, and would give the country the sort of dictatorship it needed. Finally our host invited us to have a drink, and on parting he gave both of us a pamphlet which advocates that Marshall aid be stopped and the British immigrate in large numbers to others parts of the world...
Inside the gate at Camp Pickett, deep in the dusty Virginia pine barrens, a soldier stood methodically thrusting copies of a neat, mimeographed pamphlet into the hands of arriving draftees. The cover bore the grape-leaf emblem of the 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, and the first page carried a message from its commander: "You have just joined the best outfit in the Army ... I expect to see you doing your jobs as soldiers in the best division in the best Army in the world. (Signed) Kenneth F. Cramer, Major General, Commanding...
Morrison recalled that during the '30's the committee made a study of all the essays written for a History 1 mid-year exam. The best essay was selected along with the worst, and both were published for comparison in a pamphlet...