Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sound Scoop. For 18 days, during the crisis, Kaltenborn scarcely left the CBS studios. He made 102 broadcasts of two minutes to two hours each. Able to trans late Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini as they came hot off the short wave (luckily there were no sun spots to destroy reception), he gave the radio public an instant summary of their talk and its meaning. The U.S. public had never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history...
...first, the Times's great Managing Editor Carr Van Anda finally realized James must be trying to say something. He sent reporters to the addresses. Soon he learned that all the men named were members of New York's great "Fighting Sixty-Ninth." Result: a Times scoop on the news that the Fighting Sixty-Ninth was going into action...
While expecting a bigger, more important scoop within a week or two, here's a little scoop to keep ya happy. In 20 days (from March 10 to 31) the ship's service store made a net profit of about...
...another commentator until he arranged Charles Lindbergh's famed broadcast in September 1939. He met the aviator at a dinner party, heard his views on airpower, his recent European experiences, offered to put him on the air. Lindbergh was a national sensation. Lewis was "delighted. . . . It meant a scoop for a young guy." He has since objected mightily to being called an isolationist, but is proud of his record as a non-interventionist: "I was just yelling for a little more time, and I got it." Some of his critics think they hear echoes of this attitude of mind...
...ever pounded Dorothy Lamour's typewriter. He had special tips on Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Quisling--but forget to cable "Amalgamated Press" about it because he was snooping for bigger news. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only loreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back work that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him; fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital, strictly in spite of himself...