Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motivations of the flyer are not different from those of persons engaged in many other activities. "They fly" for the same reasons "they" report the news. The article from which you quote [TIME, April 29] does not imply that any new or exotic motives exist in the flyer...
...instance, the Pearl Harbor investigation was the biggest running Congressional story in years. It was confused, difficult to understand and report. Most newspaper reporters tried to tell the story coherently, and did a good job with contradictory testimony that virtually defied untangling in the time they had to do it. But for the man who knew only what he read daily in the papers, it was tough going...
Byrnes's forceful radio report to the U.S. people this week said that if that if the Four did not agree after their recess to summon the 21-nation peace conference by "July 1 or July 15," the U.S. would submit the whole question of the peace treaties to the 51 nations of the U.N. General Assembly. "We must take the offensive for peace," he added. "There is no iron curtain that the aggregate sentiments of mankind cannot penetrate." In this speech, and in his attitude at Paris, Byrnes ably and clearly demonstrated the Western Powers' determination...
Announcer Ed Stevens hooked his mike to a portable transmitter and walked to the river's edge. Then he began his floe-by-floe report. Wet snow had been melting as it fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience...
...five months ago. But not for Pfizer. Fortnight ago demand was so heavy for Pfizer stock at the market's opening that no price could be set. When it finally opened, it was up six points over the previous day's close. Reason: Pfizer issued a quarterly report that net income, $553,352 in the first quarter of 1945, had jumped to $2,857,788; earnings were up from $1.10 to $1.94 a share. With $900,000 of this cash, Pfizer last week bought the surplus 30-acre Submarine Victory Yard in Groton, Conn...