Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Class of '51 were little boys, Shirley Temple was the the biggest box-office attraction, and the king of England tossed away an Empire for an American divorcee. That year three of the most popular entertainers of the day, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, and Irving Berlin, Pooled their talent in a picture called "Follow the Fleet." It was a slick, sophisticated job, and it provided its stars with an excellent vehicle for their song-and-dance routines...
...delegates voted. Less than 1% agreed with Lombardo. The union with the new popular front was consummated. Italy's Socialists had crawled down the lion's throat. The combined Socialist-Communist Parties had at least a fair chance of winning in the April elections...
...Dedicated Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...
Subscription Radio is a scheme for listeners to subscribe to radio programs just as they subscribe to newspapers and periodicals. For a proposed 5? a day ($18.25 a year) subscribers could tune in on three types of FM broadcasts, all without advertising: 1) continuous classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) news, dramatic and educational programs. A broadcast "pig squeal" would prevent nonsubscribers from listening in; a device to silence the squeal would be attached to subscribers' sets...
...started a real school, with eleven courses in textile technique (one class a week) for Crown workers. Joe's idea was to train workers for the new cost-cutting machines and processes he was constantly installing in his plants. It paid off double; the school became so popular that during the worst of the manpower shortage Joe had more applicants than he could hire...