Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the theatre crowd lets out with the lights on in the back seat of his limousine; or stealing the show at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration with an eloquent dissertation on the history of the relationship between the State of Massachusetts and Harvard--plus a timely presidential election year plug for Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Dike Plug. In Denver, after brooding over some serious problems in law enforcement, Judge Frank Hickey asked the city council to enact a statute making it illegal for prisoners to escape from jail...
...Bomb. At X minus 15 minutes, a bomb set off a cloud of bright red warning smoke. The gantry crane had been wheeled away; the rocket stood slim and alone. Just before X minus ten minutes, a man jumped up on the launching platform and pulled the safety plug from between the rocket's fins, and thus closed the control circuits. It was ready to fire...
...sales slump which laid off 38 workers, the retail clerks union in John Wanamaker's New York store took an unusual step; it shrewdly decided to woo the public instead of damning the management. Union members appropriated $6,000 for newspaper advertisements and mail circulars to plug the store they work for. If business picks up, explained Paul P. Milling, president of the union local, "we will be able to look forward to a further improvement in wages...
...Manhattan's George Magnani, president of Magnani Mannequins, displayed a fashion dummy that talks. Named Patty Petiteen, the mannequin will plug dresses for the ten to 14 age group. Sample sales talk: "Mother loves my Petiteen dresses because they need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies...