Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. But last fortnight Long Island suburbia was thrilled by a glimpse of a better future, a vision of clean, fast and comfortable trains, clicking off their schedules with streamliner punctuality. The Long Island would like to be such a railroad after the war, and said so, in a pamphlet issued to every passenger. The pamphlet was based on recommendations made by J. G. White Engineering Corp., which the harassed management called...
Slim, highbrowed Oswald H. Brownlee, research associate in economics at Iowa State College, thinks the answer to both questions is Yes. He wrote a pamphlet this spring to prove it, and the College published the pamphlet. Before young Mr. Brownlee could say oleomargarine, the dairymen of the Hawkeye State were shrieking that his 35-page pamphlet had jeopardized the nation's entire food program, and had wrought "untold injury" to Iowa's $100,000,000-a-year industry...
President Friley bowed before the rhetorical storm, appointed a committee of six faculty members and six dairymen to go over the Brownlee opus and ascertain its accuracy. Last week this committee made its report: Brownlee's contentions must be retracted, his pamphlet revised...
...youthful enthusiasms have run helter-skelter since he left Yale in 1929. First, deciding to dabble in politics, he published a pamphlet called The Standard Political Handbook, sold it to the Sun Oil Co. for a filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered a bit, then died...
Professor Simons. Article No. 2, in a 15-page pamphlet put out by the American Economic Review, was written by Henry Calvert Simons, associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago...