Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press reports we are informed that those rescued owe their lives to a "superman," who with Herculean strength closed the forward bulkhead door while the water was pouring through and the submarine sinking at a 45-degree angle...
...Headliner in the Hall of Science is the University of California's dramatic display of academic achievement. Most fascinating to visiting couples is the U. of C.'s not-too-scientific attempt to show them, by means of dolls, what their children will look like. Couples press buttons underneath the two dolls who most resemble them; machinery whirrs and out pops a puppet combining the physical characteristics of the parent dolls...
Siegel's points of issue with the insurance companies have been argued for years in actuarial journals and insurance columns in the press. Immediate question the counselors all raise is: how honest an adviser is an insurance agent whose livelihood is derived from commissions on sales...
...handled public relations, sat in on negotiations, represented Atlas officially or unofficially in some cor porations that big Atlas controls. Did a financial reporter need some hard-to-get information? Alex Gumberg could and would get it for him. Did the Russian Ambassador want to justify Purges to the Press? Alex Gumberg arranged an off-the-record dinner-in the name of the Nation...
...time he was advising Colonel Robin, who was also President Wilson's unofficial representative to the Kremlin. Alex Gumberg was advising Lenin on policy toward the U. S. In the revolutionary confusion he also found himself acting as press censor, an unofficial job which evolved from the fact that he was hanging around the Kremlin and could speak English...