Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Field long ago discovered, there are other ways of fighting Colonel Robert McCormick besides broadsides from the editorial page. Last week, Chicago Sunman. Field raided Tribuneman McCormick's prize stable of comic-strip artists, and captured one of the best: Milton Caniff, whose syndicated Terry and the Pirates appears in 220 newspapers with a total circulation of almost...
...Antonio, small groceries phoned their regular customers to come over on Sunday and beat the OPA's plan. Queues lined up all day Christmas to strip the shelves before the old coupons expired...
...reduce sharply their stores of canned goods, to get ready for quick handling of surpluses in case the European war ended suddenly. Result: with so many foods moving point-free, OPA found it harder to distribute supplies evenly and feared that a sudden spending of stored-up points would strip all grocery shelves of food...
...Strip Tease. In Red Bank, N.J., a busload of soldiers heard a female voice ask the driver, "Will you wait a minute, please, while I get my clothes on?", twisted their necks out of joint, saw a laundress lift aboard a load of linen...
Wishful Thinking. It remained for N.A.M.'s retiring president, Robert M. Gaylord, to strip some of the rosy talk from all these postwar predictions, uncover some hard, grey facts. He turned a fishy eye on guessers of postwar national income. Said he: "In 1929, 48,000,000 people worked a little more than 48 hours a week (2,304 million hours a week in all) and . . . produced a national income of $83,000,000." Now, there are predictions that 60,000,000 people working 40 hours a week can produce $200 billions a year, "that 2,400 million hours...