Word: sags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...
Author Craig Gilbert got hold of a good historical triangle in the Miles Standish-Priscilla Mullins-John Alden business, molded assorted Pilgrims and Indians into some stock but sound musical comedy characters, and came through with a creation that manages not to sag between the songs, which is no small feat. Nor do the songs delay the action of the book. Both come together into a balanced musical that is played with the sort of informal enthusiasm that can make a good amteur show more entertaining than all but the best of professional shows...
Fake Bottom. But, across the U.S., skyhigh butter prices had started to sag in mid-December. In Chicago they went down 7?. A fortnight ago Swift & Co. was so sure they were going down that it contracted to sell upward of 50,000 lbs. of butter to state institutions at 69? a lb., starting in January. So the worried league stepped in and bought upward of 500,000 lbs. of butter, kept a false bottom under the New York market until the January price of milk was set where the farmers wanted it. When the league stopped buying, the price...
Burning Desire. In Sag Harbor, L.I., Firemen Francis King and Harold McErlean, arrested for setting a house afire, explained that they just wanted "a little excitement...
Under the truce, T.W.A. agreed to rehire all striking pilots by Dec. 1. But 15,000 other unorganized employees, bounced by the company without notice when flights were suspended, were less lucky. T.W.A. had optimistically tripled its force for overseas expansion. A sag in postwar transatlantic air traffic last week moved three other U.S. airlines to pare their payrolls (see BUSINESS). T.W.A. might prefer to keep its wings clipped...