Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subtly, Annie became bolder as more & more Nazis accepted her authenticity. Soon, she appealed for help from other sectors to rescue surrounded party leaders. More men & equipment were thus lured into capture. On other occasions, Annie would innocently report "facts" that troubled civilians. Example: the Reich's cartographical institute, said Annie, was short of maps numbered 315 to 318; they were badly needed for national defense. Why, the Germans asked themselves, did the high command need maps of Westphalia, still 300 miles inside the Reich...
Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler, rambunctious chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, recently proposed a Senate investigation to find out. Last week, the Wheeler committee put a burr under the Senate in the form of a 94-page report on railroad reorganizations. The report painted an ugly picture...
...result, according to the report: some $2.5 billion in railroad stocks, had been written off the books as worthless, some just before the war boom began. If this had not been done-and earnings had been pro rated-these stocks would have earned an estimated $750 million from...
Chet Bowles, hoping to bring things to a head, laid his resignation on the President's desk. Harry Truman had to face it. Reports were that he decided to cut Snyder down a little, lift Bowles to a bigger, better job, settle the steel strike with a price increase of around $5 a ton, give Bowles full authority to hold the line in the future. Another report: Paul Porter, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) and genial Kentuckian who is now chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, would succeed Chet Bowles as administrator...
...Lenin, the wise leader of the Soviet people, the creator of the might of our he "land, the organizer and inspirer of the historic victory over Fascist Germany and Imperial Japan, the brilliant Army leader, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin." The press pitched into the campaign. One day Pravda would report that American women were being forced into prostitution by unemployment, the next day it would prove authoritatively that the Soviet was "the only real people's government in the world...