Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1924 old A. B. Stouffer (rhymes with "gopher") sold his Cleveland creamery to enjoy the ease he had looked for all his life. The ease came hard. Affable, garrulous, he missed talking to people. There was nothing to do. Back to work went Father Stouffer, opened a tiny, stand...
Sensation or no, Stouffer Sons Vernon and Gordon wanted no part of their parents' new occupation, bridled at having to spend their vacations lugging Dutch pies to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant. Five years later, when Vernon had graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School...
Capital's fear of the excess-profits tax now in the works (TIME, July 15) was thus partly assuaged. Also soothing was a second White House announcement: the Vinson-Trammell Act, which limits profits of ship and aircraft builders to 7 and 8% on Government contracts, would be repealed...
Month ago, an epidemic of sword swallowing started through the instinctively Republican ranks of businessmen. A frequent remark, especially in suburban and junior-executive circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was...
Eddie South's band (he of the violin) is causing a sensation at Jiggs' in New York . . . And we hear dirty rumors to the effect Artie Shaw is trying to get his old band back again . . . Harry Newman, impresarlo of the class of 1942 and booster of the King Cole...