Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the seal act was broken up. It was the first big shake-up since W. R. Hearst Jr. moved into the empire's top editorial spot. Washington Bureau Chief Edward C. Lapping was moved to Chicago as executive editor of the Hearst Herald-American, and four other staffers were either shifted or discharged. Only two of the office staff were left: Dave Sentner, who now will boss the bureau, and Bill Flythe. Newsmen wondered whether the shake-up might mean a change in Hearst policies. A likelier reason was that the ailing Hearst empire was starting...
...Lili Marlene's oldest friends had a get-together last week.* Into the hilly Westphalian town of Iserlohn, through the city gate topped by a huge iron cross memorializing the Franco-Prussian War, trooped 2,500 Germans. They eagerly searched each other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel...
This week McKeen showed just what he meant. As a result of a plant expansion that will double production, Pfizer sliced the price on terramycin, its biggest seller, from 15% to 40%. The cut was bound to shake down prices of terramycin's two great competitors, Lederle's aureomycin and Parke, Davis' chloromycetin...
...Tokyo one day early this month, a Japanese policeman noticed a woman hurrying furtively along the street, asked her what was in the bundle she was carrying. Instead of answering, the woman made for a truck, tossed the bundle in, and managed to shake off the cops. Police followed the truck to a garage, found it to be crammed with Communist records and literature. Japan's eight top Communist leaders had been in hiding ever since the government ordered their arrests more than a year ago. The new find gave police evidence enough to crack down on most...
Later, correspondents crowded about Prochazka in the lobby. Did he and the President discuss the Oatis case? Said Prochazka: "No comment." Did they shake hands? "Yes, of course," said Prochazka. "What do you mean...