Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans on the committee voted against the report. Complained Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, who had made the original charge: "A clear case of whitewash...
Challenged, he explained next day that his conclusion was drawn from the official report on the 1945 Hiroshima bomb, which scientists now consider a model-T bomb. The report said that "flash burns were protected by clothing and buildings within less than 3,250 ft. from the blast." The north-south runway, Tatom declared, is 6,840 ft. long. Rejoined Georgia's Congressman Carl Vinson laconically: "I, personally, would rather be in Georgia...
Said the FAO report: "1948 marked the ending of acute food scarcities in Europe ... A major rehabilitation in agriculture has been achieved." By 1951, the delegates predicted, most Europeans would be eating as much (though not quite so well) as they did before...
...literary world shook with a double-barreled report: 1) Ernest Hemingway's first book since For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) would be out in March, and 2) Hemingway had been close to death last February when he started writing it. As his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that...
Never lifting his eyes from his report, Mr. Ford asked the assemblage to turn to page five for what he confidently referred to as "some interesting facts." These included a Net Rental Income of $10,511.79, Internal Interest Charges to Merchandising Departments of $17,561,00, and something called a Demolition Expense, $37,765.95. It all added up to the fact that the Coop lost over $25,000 last year, which seemed to disturb neither Mr. Ford nor the 30 participating members...