Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After calls on President Truman, acting Secretary of State Acheson, and UNRRA Director LaGuardia, nattily dressed Roxas held a press conference at Blair-Lee House. Said he, vigorously exhaling cigaret smoke through his nostrils: "Collaboration is no longer a political issue in the Philippines...
...With Smoke & Flame. Two minutes later, at 2:13, a small orange flame licked the base of the rocket. With a throbbing roar, the giant main charge took light. A flood of flame submerged the launching platform. Slowly the rocket rose, so slowly and lazily at first that it seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail...
...than to be seen- trooped back, virtually en masse, the next night. Then it had the very rare opportunity of witnessing Henry IV, Part II- last produced on Broadway in 1867. The Old Vic had clearly started off with its heaviest artillery.† But when the boom and smoke had subsided, there was no doubt that it had won the engagement...
...gloom of the coal strike, and the smoke of Hoboken, N.J., U.S. Steel last week held its annual stockholders' meeting. For the 200 who attended, such as sisters Mary & Carrie Cerf, who seldom miss a meeting, the news was bad. Chairman Irving S. Olds reported that Bis Steel's production had dropped to 36% of capacity, from 95% a week before the strike started, and earnings had dropped with it. Nevertheless, he declared the usual $1 a share quarterly dividend, hoped that the "tremendous existing demand for steel products of all kinds" will eventually make Big Steel...
...Bernhard commented privately: "There are two kinds of decorations-those for valor and those for banqueting; I get all the eating decorations." Wilhelmina, who used to disapprove of Bernhard's prewar frivolity (he even drank cocktails on Sunday) now thinks so much of him that she lets him smoke in her dining room...