Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising were discredited. Another favorable sign: before the Andean rebels were squelched, APRA's paper La Tribune, announced that APRA too was "wholly on the side of the government...
...Hampshire Morning Union (once owned by the late Frank Knox), 42-year-old Publisher William Loeb explained in a front-page editorial why he was running a two-column story on Wallace's visit. Wrote Loeb: "We are giving Henry Wallace . . . more space in our paper than [his visit] deserves . . . Because we dislike him so much, we want to be sure we are doing the right thing...
Last week Anna announced that she had sold the paper, as her "last act" fired 60 employees by registered letter.* At week's end the sale was called off; the minority stockholder, for unexplained reasons, had vetoed the deal. But the paper was still on the block...
...hulking building with the pink neon sign-it might have been a sports arena, a warehouse or a hangar for tomorrow's giant rocket bomber-stood in the greyer part of grey Philadelphia. Along its long corridors and empty galleries, janitors toiled glumly amid drifts of paper cups, candy wrappers, newspapers and stale buns. As a band blurted out the first brassy music of the morning, the great main floor was only half filled...
...experts are not sure what particle (or particles) causes this great commotion. Some think the primary rays are electrons which must be moving (to have so much energy) at almost the speed of light. But Dr. Bruno Rossi of M.I.T. presented a paper at last week's meeting claiming that there are practically no electrons or photons (high energy electromagnetic waves) among the primary radiations. They are observed in the showers along with other particles, but Rossi believes that they are formed when the primary ray (whatever it is) hits the atmosphere...