Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion-a-year armed services. But one top Administration economist, watching Louis Johnson's roughshod methods, snorted: "He's made two enemies for every dollar he's saved." In nine weeks he had antagonized: the White House (for his tendency to pop off to the press), the Marines (for privately threatening to disband their air arm), the aviation industry (for canceling other contracts in favor of the B-36), the Navy (for a host of bitterly resented indignities...
...Switzerland, where they visited with Aly and his two sons, Karim Aga, 12, and Amyon Mohammed, 11. After two weeks of skiing, the party pulled up again on the Riviera. There the engagement was announced, two months before Aly's divorce. As the wedding date appreached, the press descended on Cannes' Hotel Carlton like love-crazed locusts...
Indian Ambassador Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit told the Women's National Press Club that "too many sugar things are said in the world today, and I am surfeited with them." (In 1947, when she was India's first ambassador to Moscow, Mrs. Pandit had sweetly said: "India has a special link with the Soviet Union, since both India and Russia have shown a capacity to blend and harmonize different races and civilizations...
...once sent a dead mouse through one of the pneumatic tubes connecting Chicago's four daily newspapers with the City News Bureau. Two minutes later, "City Press," which prides itself on its speedy service, shot back a box of rat poison. For live news, it moves even faster; on big stories it sometimes pops 2,000' words a minute through the 40-m.p.h. tubes...
Last week, as City Press moved into new offices on Randolph Street above Texas Guinan's old nightclub, news was waiting on the doorstep. Hearing a commotion in the street, Reporter Donald Coleman raced downstairs, found the cops chasing a fleeing prisoner, and phoned back a story on his recapture. Five minutes later, blue-inked, identical copies of Coleman's story were on city desks all over town...