Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schenck took a $50,000 bundle of bills to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, dropped it on the bed and looked out the window. Other Hollywood tycoons got into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million dollars...
...from birth, the magazine has been in the thick of the hurly-burly of U.S. invention. Through its Manhattan editorial office trooped Morse, Gatling, the Maxim brothers, Edison, many another great inventor. Scientific American used to maintain a patent advice agency which, besides giving the magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...
...after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy") to the latest blessed event in the Indian colony. Occasionally his desire for a scoop leads him into trouble, but he is graceful at retraction: "Last week we had made a mistaken on Frank Mike passed away. He is at first place, but he is life again two or three hours afterwards...
...American-flag background appeared all over the city. On them was this legend: "Congratulations on a job well done-Hart Schaffner & Marx." A few days later the London Daily Mail angrily protested that American businessmen in uniform were transacting business in Paris. But who had scored this advertising scoop for the big U.S. clothing firm no one seemed able...
Tanks . . . Bulldozers. Tanks made a stab, were wrecked by Germans who sneaked through the tunnels, popped out behind them. Bulldozers tried to scoop dirt in front of the gun openings, failed to cut their fire power. In the fantastic melee, even headquarters became confused. Once it announced the fort's capture, was flatly contradicted a few hours later by the Associated Press, which correctly reported that German resistance not only continued, but was rising in violence...