Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitement. I shoved Telek [the General's Scotty] under the desk, commanding him not to bark. [The Nazis] marched straight by without as much as a glance . . . sour-faced, glum, erect and despicable. They came to a parade-ground halt, clicked their heels and saluted . . . General Eisenhower stood stock-still, more military than I had ever seen him. His voice was brittle." When it was over, and "the Germans half-bowed, saluted, did an about-face and marched back past my desk and out of the office . . . General Ike's face stretched into the broadest grin...
...week's end the Journal was setting type on standard linotypes, others fitted with typewriter keyboards, teletypesetters manned by "half a dozen pretty girls," and (for the lengthy stock and commodity tables) photo-engraved typewriting. The Ridders and their amateur printers were tired and grimy, but their now typographically clean paper was almost meeting its deadlines. And the I.T.U. had another 120-point warning that the revolution in printing had come to stay...
...Beef and pork prices in the Chicago and Minneapolis markets reached new highs this week as midwestern live stock rates showed no signs of a cutback...
brought out its first Golden Records for phonographs (Scuffy the Tugboat, The Poky Little Puppy, etc.), to sell at 29? apiece. The first three days enthusiastic parents cleaned out a Los Angeles store's entire stock of 10,000 records. S. & S. were sure the records would prove as golden as the books...
...heat, the stench, and the occasional beauty of the African jungle almost tangible. Stripped of its pretentious symbolism, its agonized soul-searching, this could have been a good travel book. But the vivid jungle is matted and twined with the perilous Africa cliché, reminiscent of Hollywood's stock treatment: "Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp her. Don't try to penetrate her. Don't get sucked into the whirlpool. The deeper you go, the more poisonous she grows. Take...