Word: pattersoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comics had become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
Action. Eleven hours after the Gallup fire, American Airlines' Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith ordered American's 35 DC-6s grounded "until we know" the reason for the fires. Shortly after, United Air Lines' President W. A. Patterson grounded United's 34 DC-6s. President Truman's own Independence, a DC-6, came under the quarantine...
...School Association, representing 18,000 alumni, has announced a campaign to raise $100,000 for the book repository, which will serve as a memorial for the School's 200 World War I and II dead. Already the Association's officers, headed by ex-Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, have donated $5,000 to the project...
...witness against Young, the Virginian called two officials of the New York Central. Said Jess P. Patterson, Central's general freight traffic manager: "I did not like the reference to a trial marriage . . . that kind of marriage ends in disaster. . . . Such a merger is not a good thing for the Central." Did W. F. Place, Central's vice president in charge of finance, think the marriage would improve Central's credit standing? Said he tersely: "No." Young's flustered counsel hastily asked for a recess. At week's end, as ICC took the case under...
Secretary of the Army, hulking, even-tempered Kenneth C. Royall, former Under Secretary of War and Secretary since Bob Patterson's resignation last month, a onetime North Carolina lawyer, wartime brigadier general in the Army Service Forces, whose ambition is to run for governor of North Carolina...