Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy connected its John Rodgers airfield outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...
...streets selling ads, gathering local news. She calls herself "manager, editor, reporter, errand boy and devil." Often, while writing her stories and editorials, Mrs. Kyner is interrupted by the profane shouts of the town drunks. Rangely has no jail; the deputy sheriff handcuffs prisoners, nails the cuffs to a pole outside the Rangely News office...
Warsaw spluttered over this "insult to Polish sovereignty" (but failed to protest the erection of Red Army roadblocks following anti-Russian disturbances near Bialystok, in sovereign Poland). The U.S. was especially invited to mind its own business. "And by own business," cracked a Pole in Washington, "we mean the Mississippi primaries...
...Allen Smith has reason to like cats better than dogs. Before he turned to writing best-selling books (Low Man on a Totem Pole, Life in a Putty Knife Factory), he wrote newspaper features, including movie-star interviews. During that ordinarily harmless tour of duty, the late Lupe Velez once became so agitated that she threw a small brown dog at him. Now, at long last, Author Smith has written a novel about a cat, a large yellow alley cat called Rhubarb...
...odds, this was the sharpest British journalistic swerve of the year. A sort of Churchill at the halfway mark (though at the opposite political pole), talented, ambitious Frank Owen had been a Liberal M.P. at 23, the socialist editor of the imperialist Evening Standard at 32, a soldier correspondent at 37. His latest professional hurdle took him from his prewar job with Lord Beaverbrook into the camp of the Beaver's keenest journalistic rival, Lord Rothermere. Some Tory friends of Rothermere's thought he was on a sticky wicket in hiring (for a reported $40,000 a year...