Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottom-that happened to comedies like June Moon and Boy Meets Girl. But Turgenev's Smoke, which was expected to leave people cold, was one of the most popular we've ever done." And he adds: "There are some shows I've put on that I personally hate, but I know there's an audience for them. TV's a mass medium and there has to be something for everybody. You have to make compromises...
...were finding business harder & harder to hold on to. This was due to: 1) Lewis, whom coalmen call "the best oil salesman in the country"; 2) the greater efficiencies and cleanliness of oil and natural gas; 3) the rise in coal prices and drop in oil prices, which has put oil on a competitive footing with coal. On the East Coast alone switchovers from coal to oil have cut this year's coal sales at least 20% below...
Died. Brigadier General Arthur Vincent McDermott, 61, who as wartime head of the nation's biggest draft board (he called it "agony headquarters") put 900,000 New Yorkers into uniform; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Pacific. Pavuvu is a stinking, rat-infested little island in the Solomons, fit neither for marine nor Gook. Some men went "Asiatic" (regular Marine lingo for rock-happy). A sentry walked his muddy post for four hours, stopped at the last tent as his relief reported, put his rifle to his mouth and blew the top of his head off. This seemed so reasonably symptomatic of the division's island sickness that a marine in a nearby tent only growled: "Now I gotta find the padre. It's getting so they won't even...
Burden. In Knoxville, Tenn., the judge bound Neal Edwards to the grand jury for stealing a 100-lb. sack of flour, despite Edwards' contention that "somebody must have put it on my back...