Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once summed up his odd philosophy in three sentences which would have horrified the Commission on Freedom of the Press: "If you've got a good story, the important thing is to get it out fast. You can worry about details later. And if you have to send a correction, that will probably make another good story...
...Tiki has a bamboo deck and a small bamboo cabin. Two masts support a primitive square sail. Modern conveniences are iron rations, U.S. Army sun-cream, anti-exposure suits. A radio will send daily weather reports to the U.S. Weather Bureau...
Like the banker he had been, he figured that safety pays off in the cash register. Said he: "If we take a chance and send a plane from Chicago to New York and it gets through, we gain $3,000 in revenue. If it cracks up, it costs us $1,000,000. All humanitarian principles aside, who'd gamble with the odds a million to three thousand against...
Christopher Fortune (Robert Hutton), a sensitive type, has music in his soul and wants to go to Paris to get it out. But his father (Leo G. Carroll), a rock-bound Maine sea captain, sends him to sea instead. When his father orders a second voyage, Chris does not tell the old man to go keelhaul himself, and then leave home, penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side...
...theoretically encompassing representatives of all the thirty-eight groups which would receive new leases on life through an SAC. The only drawback has been in the absence of all but a half-dozen of the "interested" parties. Notwithstanding this gap in representation, the committee's first meeting determined to send each organization a detailed questionnaire requesting data on current and pre-war membership, present meeting facilities, and what it would need in a new Student Activities Center. Most important, one query asked the actual membership vote supporting SAC. Questionnaires must be back in the Council's hands by Wednesday...