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...Springboard. Perry is a 65-year-old Kentuckian who got into the newspaper business as a lawyer, once owned a piece of the Seattle Star. By 1918 he had saved enough money to buy control of American Press Association, a firm that annually places $3,000,000 worth of national ads in weekly papers...
Other poetry of 1945: Randall Jarrell's Little Friend, Little Friend; William Carlos Williams' The Wedge; C. Day Lewis' Short Is the Time; Louis MacNeice's Springboard (some of the most resonant and masculine of contemporary poetry); Walter de la Mare's The Burning-Glass...
They had lost a base within 400 miles of their home islands, only 1,100 miles from Tokyo; this base would soon be the springboard for vast assaults on their homeland. They had lost (by preliminary count) 98,564 men killed and 4,500 captured...
...narrowed down to the main objective: poverty-stricken, malaria-ridden, snake-infested Okinawa, largest and staunchest rung in the Ryukyu ladder. Once firmly established on Okinawa, Americans could climb up the 370 miles to Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, or climb down 365 miles to Formosa, potential springboard for landings in China...
...last three men he has picked to edit his London Evening Standard (circulation: 608,000) have been bright young journalists first, fiery leftists second. The advantages in each case were mutual-but temporary. The Beaver got a well-edited paper. For the leftists, the Standard was a soapbox, a springboard-and a handsome meal-ticket. So long as they could agree on "fundamentals" (Churchill as a war leader, aid to Russia) the wary alliance lasted. Last week the last of the three leftists gave...