Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City Tribune's first woman reporter, redheaded Florabel Muir wanted to become the first woman to cover an execution. Utah law said executions could be witnessed only by men. Florabel dickered, fumed, finally got the State Attorney General to rule that she was a reporter, not a female...
...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
...headlong into politics in Iran, now bubbling with feeling against foreigners. In recognition of this, the Shah bluntly told oilmen that no new concessions will be granted till war's end and all foreign troops leave the country. But oilmen took this with a grain of political salt. In prewar years, roughly 20% of Iranian' revenue came from royalties and taxes on oil pumped from the south Iran fields of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. If new fields are opened up, Iran's national income will soar...
...Selznick has taken the simple story of the Home front and packed it with enough expert talent in acting and directing to produce one of the war's more eloquent screen productions. It's a tear-jerker from beginning to end, and even the toughest hombres will flick a salt-saturated drop from their grizzled exam beards...
...Russians claimed that they had 15 enemy divisions "on the verge" of entrapment between Memel and Riga. Allied observers took this with some salt, recalling that when Bagramian drove to the Gulf of Riga last summer, 20 to 30 German divisions were supposed to have been bottled up in the north. The net bag, when that region was finally cleaned up last month, was not much more than five divisions...