Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the railroads got a reprieve. Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked that his Intelligence officers be allowed to screen Clark's 4,000-page brief, lest potential enemies learn too much about the strategic use of the railroads. Railroad men hoped that Army red tape might delay the suit indefinitely...
...door. Dancer Vickie Evans, hearing them, opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet named Lila Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford and Miss Leeds...
...heard the news in Las Vegas, and announced that she was undecided. By the time she reached Hollywood, she told newsmen that she would "stand by" Bob. Next day, to an obbligato of clicking shutters, the Mitchums posed in Hollywood's traditional happy-home embrace. Bob wore his screen-lover expression. Hollywood anxiously hoped that a public which (it thinks) likes and expects happy endings would soon forget the whole thing...
Television. Two new television sets, each the cheapest in its class-a table model with a ten-inch screen for $249.95 and a "consolette" for $279,95-were brought out by Tele-Tone Radio Corp...
...Lucky Strike cigarettes, which prance through a complex square dance. Rheingold beer cans and bottles troop by a reviewing stand, while overhead drones a beer-keg blimp. Sheffield, hawking a soft drink, takes an inexpensive way out: a paper orange with a metal base is scooted across the screen by means of a concealed magnet. Sanka coffee and other advertisers have adapted the novelties (popup techniques and hinged limbs) common in children's books...