Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effete example of ignorance as his "minor league," "hillbilly," and "subsidized players" effort in TIME, Oct. 30. True, circumstances have forced him to dig up a few bouquets to toss at this year's team and "the Major," but his apparent reluctance to do so and his "scoop" discovery of Tennessee as a major league team have forced this constant reader of TIME to take up his pen and write his first letter to an editor...
Photographic work should appeal to the numerous camera fans in '42 and '43. A complete darkroom in the building is available for any type of in the building is available for any tube of picture processing and candidates are assigned to take everything from ordinary posed how to "scoop" photography. In addition, a thorough training in the technique of photography is available for men who have never before held a comera...
...Henderson. The reason the 75,000-copy first printing of the British Blue Book, including the reports he sent his Government from Berlin from May 28 to Sept. 1, sold like hot cakes in London last week was therefore not hard to find. He had turned in a world scoop, a still-warm drop of the very blood of history, a terrifying picture of how war is born, some penetrating glimpses of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsdcker, a modest reflection of Sir Nevile's own shrewdness, courage...
WMCA's ardent promotion department photostated two such puff-items, crayoned a big "SCOOP!" across the layout, ran it as an ad in the trade press. Week later from the Federal Communications Commission (James Lawrence Fly, chairman) came a curt order to WMCA to show cause, within 72 hours, why its license should not be revoked...
...Panama Canal, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Boulder Dam, New York's subways, many U. S. railroads, were built with Marion shovels (now no longer steam, but electric & Diesel driven). Monster of the Marion line is a $450,000 strip coal mining shovel, which can scoop up 50 tons of earth, dump it on top of a seven-story building 226 feet away...