Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...
...many another bandleader has tried to imitate what Lombardo calls his organ tone, his publicity man calls "the sweetest music this side of heaven," and others call just this side of mooing. Imitators have had their men tune off key, nick their reeds and pour warm milk into the bells of their saxophones, but they have never quite hit it. Guy says his sweet simple music is "for people already in love or potentially in love. . . . We try not to displease anyone...
Newsverifying queries like these make up only a small part of the dozens of wires and cables that pour out of our New York office each week to our correspondents at home and overseas. By far the greater number of these messages are in connection with our newsgathering-to steer our correspondents along channels that will help our editors bring you a clearer, more complete, better connected story of the week's news. But add them all together-and I think you'll see why our News Bureau's bill for outgoing messages alone...
...biggest blast came from the five million men in uniform. Most of them had voted Labor, all of them expected to go home as fast as possible after V-J day. The headlines made their pulses race: "Millions of Orders Pour Into Britain," "Britain Enters Great Enterprise of Peace." There would be good jobs and good...
Domei continued to pour out propaganda stories, one of them accusing U.S. soldiers of raping Jap girls. At week's end, U.S. reporters discovered that Domei, far from being put out of business, had signed an agreement with the Chinese Central News Agency to transmit its news to China on the regular Domei propaganda broadcast...