Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chuck telephoned his Washington lawyer, ex-Congressman Jim Barnes, of Illinois, to send him all the statistics he could find. Chuck alerted Manhattan's and Chicago's advertising agencies. "Get some ideas." He told the agency men to meet him three days hence in Washington's Carlton Hotel. While copywriters and layout artists worked and slept in their offices and a Chicago photocopy company worked overtime copying posters and exhibits, Luckman retired with reports to bone up on the problem of food. The problem was gigantic but simple. To save Europe, the U.S. had to ship...
...Great Hurry." At six, left at home in Hyde Park, young Franklin laboriously wrote: "I am in a great hurry. I found two birds nests. I took one egg." At seven: "I went to the Borland's I won one game by 2 she the other by 3. Send Papa 100 kisses and Aunt Laura and Uncle Frank both 75." At nine, on a trip to Bad Nauheim, Germany, in a round, bold hand he wrote to his cousins: "I go to the public school with a lot of little mickies and we have German reading, German dictation...
...have hopes of winning olive wreaths and oak trees but unfortunately not too bright ones. America's major sports--football, baseball and basketball--gain rather minor positions in Olympics. Football, as the U. S. plays it, is popular in no other nation and although there has been talk of sending an exhibition team, it is unlikely. An exhibition baseball team usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would be picked individually through regional tryouts. America always...
...send-off ceremony at the station will feature a serenade by the University band, which starts south an hour later, and a large group of undergraduate supporters are expected. "We'll need all the backing we can get," said one of the Varsity coaches last night...
Tihua Picnics. Last week General Chang submitted to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a five-year plan for Sinkiang's reconstruction. Under it Nanking would send 60 or 70 technicians to develop agriculture and mining in the northwest. A large financial grant would be made...