Word: spieled
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California's Governor Earl Warren passed his magic wand over his political hat last week, and gave a lengthy spiel about what he would produce. But he surprised no one when he pulled out Joe Knowland's boy and named him U.S. Senator to succeed the late Hiram Johnson...
...Major William Fife Knowland, A.U.S.,will be America's youngest Senator. Burly Earl Warren explained that Major Knowland, now with an Army historical section in Paris, precisely fitted the spiel he had made about the kind of man California's new Senator should...
...artist do a painting of the wreck, hung it in his office. A worrier, he devised ways to check on his salesmen's selling talks. One way: he hid microphones behind pictures and under display radios so that he could listen in on the sales spiel in the privacy of his rooftop office. He pioneered in the building of super-duper radios, sold them to wealthy householders for as much as $15,000 each...
Disproving the theory that whatever is learned in this school can never be forgotten, Dick Ayers' wonderful spiel on IBM procedures went over most of the fog-bound heads in the audience that night. But we did notice bright-eyed Professor Bliss taking a few quick notes on the back of an envelope; perhaps something that he had forgotten or perhaps just something else to smile at and to see how "surprisingly" well the boys next term...
...first determined attack on radio advertising in the U.S.: the amount of good music on the air, says he, has constantly decreased, giving way to soap operas and "talk" programs. The Benton plan would give paying listeners all the music they wanted, 24 hours a day, without any advertising spiel...