Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their various emergencies, local postmasters are taking many & various steps. In some war-burdened cities like Washington, deliveries in residential areas are being cut to one a day, in business districts to two a day. One of Boston's suburban stations last week got seven horses to pull mail trucks...
...Like U.S. newspaper correspondents in Moscow, Lesueur had to rely for most of his information on communiques, the Army newspaper The Red Star, other military journals. News beats were out because "Moscow is not the kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...
Panic's Sequel. Firemen broke down the revolving door, found it blocked by bodies of the dead, six deep. They tried to pull a man out through a side window: his legs were held tight by the mass of struggling people behind him. In an hour the fire was out and firemen began untangling the piles of bodies. One hard bitten fireman went into hysterics when he picked up a body and a foot came off in his hand. They found a girl dead in a telephone booth, a bartender still standing behind...
...issue in 1920 was quelled by the management at great expense to U.S. symphonic music when some 31 strikers left. Conductor Koussevitzky managed to rebuild the orchestra to the highest level. Two years ago Boss Petrillo barred the Bostonians from radio and recording studios under a threat to pull all union musicians out of the studios. Like most U.S. symphony orchestras, the Bostonians had come to depend less and less on wealthy patronage, more and more on broadcasting and recording fees. After two years off the air, the Symphony's trustees threw in the sponge, signed a union contract...
From the day they went on the air two years ago, the team of Rodriguez & Sutherland, the Pacific Coast's favorite newscasting team, were headed for trouble. They refused to pull punches. This oversight got them a huge audience, but it cost them sponsors, and last week it cost them the air. Reason: they had criticized the Government gas rationing. Their station (Los Angeles' KECA) fired them-although they may have had other reasons...