Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to Arthur Kasherman, 43, publisher of an unsavory Minneapolis one-man tabloid, the Public Press. He died as he said he would: "Just like they got Guilford and Liggett." In 1934 gunfire from a passing automobile had brought down another Minneapolis publisher, Howard Guilford, who circulated two scandal sheets, the Saturday Press and Pink Sheet; and, a year later, Walter Liggett, publisher of the Midwest American, got his. Liggett, a former editor of Plain Talk (a magazine), and Guilford, a veteran St. Paul newspaperman, once had some legitimacy as journalists. Kasherman had none...
...catchy little ditty called Rum & Coca-Cola has been banned by all four major networks, but it is sweeping the U.S. Its sheet-music sales have climbed to a whopping 37,000 a day. Recordings of it by the Andrews Sisters and others are selling like cigarets...
Mayor LaGuardia, echoing this gloomy prediction, wondered why youths should now be learning such trades as plumbing, drafting, electricity, and sheet-metal work in the city's Building Trades High School when "tens of thousands" of servicemen are being trained in them. "Why train more people for the next five years," he asked, " . . . if they can't find employment...
Lieut. Will Rogers Jr., son of the late, great humorist, and Congressman from California until he quit politics to go to war, was forced to withdraw his platoon in the face of an enemy attack, but left his regards for the Nazis: on a four-foot sheet of wrapping paper, nailed to a tree in the middle of a road, he printed in big red letters a favorite Nazi slogan: "Beware! We will be back in two weeks with our new secret weapon...
...Breaks. Through the lines on Friday came an enemy envoy carrying a white sheet. He delivered an ultimatum: two hours to decide upon surrender. The alternative: "annihilation by artillery." The German commander appended a touching appeal to U.S. instincts: "The serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well-known American humanity...