Word: slices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized labor realizes an old ambition this week when the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations jointly take over a regular 15-minute slice of NBC's Saturday night network time. Together they gain what neither has ever had-the opportunity to inform, and the obligation to please, a national weekly radio audience. The two organizations will alternate in producing regular weekly programs under the title Labor for Victory, Saturday nights from 10:15 to 10:30, E.W.T., beginning this Saturday...
...scaring the paddy birds and parrots. Burma's valleys run north, the direction of the Jap's main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could be sent west without much trouble. One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal...
...June, plus a jammed-up twelve week summer session, with no reading period and no time for tutorial work. They have not given us the time for tutorial in the summer--that is the crux of the matter. Instead, they have shaped something like a round wheel with a slice lopped off of one side, and asked us to make the cart go even faster than ever before...
...Japan's successes have taken a 7% slice out of the U.S. cinema industry's already shaky foreign market; in normal times, gross film rentals from Japan, China, the East Indies and Straits Settlements amount to almost $6,000,000 (Java alone: $1,500,000). In Australia and New Zealand, 14% more of the industry's foreign revenue is at stake...
...Washington's concrete Uline Arena some 4,000 screaming rug-cutters watched Eleanor Roosevelt slice a 6-ft. birthday cake, distribute chunks to Rosalind Russell, Gene Autry, more than a dozen other cinema stars. Newlywed Actor Mickey Rooney crammed down five slices, mugging for cameramen, before Mrs. Roosevelt gave up. At one of Washington's smaller private parties in the Willard Hotel ballroom, Production Boss Donald Nelson tried to take the private elevator, was told by the operator: "Sorry, sir, but this is only for movie stars and big shots...