Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, back at the agency that produced the ad. Adman Howard Becker modestly disclaimed any special talent for creating the likeness of a radio pundit. Said he: "It's simple, really. If you speak in a portentous voice, write copy in short, terse style, make everything sound important, you sound like Murrow-no matter...
Hoak's Hoakum. Cincinnati's Don Hoak was first to set the rule writers working. Leading off second in a game with the Milwaukee Braves, Base Runner Hoak started for third when Cincinnati's Wally Post laced a grounder to short. Redleg Gus Bell, who had been holding first, took off for second. With his sharp infielder's eye, Hoak recognized the setup for an almost certain double play. With his sure infielder's hands he fielded the ball, tossed it to the Braves' astonished shortstop, Johnny Logan. "Hit" by a batted ball, Hoak...
...anguished answer from across the floor, "say 'ouch!'" Sooner or later, every man in the class learns for himself. "One day a guy's a woman, the next a man," explains Brock. Just so his students can tell the difference, he has the "women" wear short yellow vests over their manly chests...
...SMALL BUSINESS LOANS will be available for first time since Feb. 1, when Small Business Administration ran short of funds for everything except most urgent disaster borrowing. Congress has allocated $45 million in stopgap funds until new fiscal year begins July 1, and SB A is ready to lend $26 million to 475 small firms with backlogged applications...
...Government the problem is how to maintain a strong domestic industry in case of war, which has always found the U.S. in short supply of critical metals. Unwilling to raise tariffs in the interests of world trade, the Eisenhower Administration in 1954 stepped up its stockpiling program, set about buying big supplies of the metals for strategic storage. By also bartering surplus U.S. grain for surplus foreign lead, zinc and antimony for the stockpile, the Department of Agriculture aimed to hold down metal imports. While the program helped U.S. miners by raising prices of zinc and lead, it also worsened...