Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a straight face, the Tulsa Trades Council (A.F.L.) nominated a little group that it would like to see take the first rocket trip to the moon. Sample nominees: Westbrook Pegler ("because of his ability to report true facts"), H. V. Kaltenborn ("for his ability to accurately analyze new developments"), Fulton Lewis Jr. ("for his ability to expose shoddy administration...
...Nazi concentration camp and postwar German cabarets. Christina comes on the air pretending to be a newsboy, hawking the day's headlines in rhymes which frequently poke fun at the Communists. Her most popular tagline, delivered in a knowing, childish singsong, comes at the end of her report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that I really don't understand!]." Throughout the Soviet zone, her phrase appears morning after morning scribbled below some grandiose Communist poster...
...Force has tested its pilot bed only on the ground and in the bombardier's compartment of a B17. Eleven pilots have ridden in it snugly battened down for eight hours each. They report that the bed is comfortable, but complain of boredom because of restricted movement...
...John A. McCone, who helped write the Finletter report on U.S. air power. He is president of the Joshua Hendy Iron Works and the California Shipbuilding Corp. (Calship), which built Victory and Liberty ships (TIME, March...
Though brokers moaned that expenses were so high they could hardly earn their carfare, the nation's biggest brokerage house last week turned in a rosy annual report. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane (variously known to gagsters as "We, the People," "The Thundering Herd," "All This and Fenner, Too") did 9.4% of the round lot (blocks of 100 shares) trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 1948, and 12.9% of the odd-lot (less than 100 shares) business. It made a net profit of $1,704,513. This was nearly three times as much as it made...