Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Razzle-Dazzle. Andrew Higgins stole the march by using a double dose of Kaiser's own technique-rough & tumble action plus fortissimo publicity. Right after Higgins lost his ship contract, he raised enough rumpus to start several Congressional investigations, to snag thousands of headlines, and convince many people that he was a victim of the Maritime Commission. When things slowed down Higgins bought full-page ads in leading newspapers, boasting "World's largest builder of boats...
Tired of empty urban pews, U.S. Baptists last month began an elaborate program of suburban church building. But the evangelization of suburbia has hit a snag: priorities. Undaunted, the Baptists are meeting in suburban halls, schools, stores while waiting for building materials. In one Philadelphia suburb, the congregation worships in a barber shop...
...Magnin chain of high falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein...
...Defense Plant Corp. had picked the site for a project, construction was ready to go. But the directors of the corporation owning the land would not meet for three weeks to approve the sale. Half an hour after getting the story, Francis and some lawyers had pulled up the snag, bypassed the directors. Construction started the next...
Tanks. The President's 1942 figure is only a few thousand above the War Department's old goal of about 40,000 units. The snag: transmissions and engines. But last week farm-equipment makers were ready to take on big transmission orders. Another idea: hitch two 125-h.p. automobile engines (which can be made by the hundreds) to form one 250-h.p. tank engine...