Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nast bought the magazine in 1909 with money saved as Collier's advertising director, made it a semimonthly. His simple advertisingman's formula: bring together people who want to buy something and people who want to sell. That the formula was successful is evident in the roll call of Condé Nast products. Today C. N. Publications mothers, besides Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour (fashions for the younger set), British Vogue, the Vogue Pattern Book, Vogue patterns, Hollywood patterns. A French edition was suspended in 1940 when the Germans got within gunshot of Paris...
...week of the Great Armistice that lost the world a great war. Twenty-five years ago the ambulances were rolling along the hard-surfaced driveways of Walter Reed Hospital, bringing the men out of the foreign valleys-from St. Mihiel, the Meuse, the Somme. Today the ambulances roll again, bringing young men from other valleys-from Nicosia, Salerno, Kiska, Guadalcanal...
...fiercest battles were fought near Krivoi Rog, in the heart of the Dnieper bend. This devastated iron center also protected a German escape corridor across the southern Ukraine. The capture of Krivoi Rog would culminate the lower Dnieper campaign, enabling the Red flood to roll southward, cut off perhaps a score of German divisions...
Welcome Committee. The lieutenant was, in fact, a guest of the Army. The most elaborate machinery ever devised lor refitting fighting men had begun to roll, and he was among the first to go through it. Developed by the Army Air Forces, the new program is called, in typically tongue-twisting Army language, the A.A.F. Redistribution Center. Two "stations," at Miami Beach and Atlantic City, are in operation. Others are planned for the Midwest and the West Coast...
...Like Eli Whitney, Paul Revere is famed for the wrong thing: he never completed his gallant ride, but he learned how to make and roll copper and brass (British monopolists thought they had that essential art sewed up) and he pioneered the theory that high wages mean high production and profits. The $2 a day he paid his workmen was infinitely more of a shock than Henry Ford...