Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hazards. The engines of the planes, chilled nightly in the sub-zero cold at Fallen, had to be warmed with hot air for hours before flight. Operation Haylift flew over rugged mountains which pilots nicknamed "Lower Slobbovia." To get feed close to the animals, the planes flew low (from 150 to 200 ft.) while airmen, muffled and goggled, toiled in a storm of freezing wind and flying chaff to kick bales out of open doors...
Editor & Publisher Parton planned to merge the Shopping News with his seven other papers, call the new paper the Los Angeles Independent. He also set out to hire 50 newsmen and 150 ad salesmen. They will put out 10 to 15 semiweekly "sub-editions," in effect, community giveaways, for the major communities of Los Angeles. All the papers will have some features (fashions, movies, music, cartoons, etc.) in common. Los Angeles newsmen guessed that 36-year-old Parton's eventual aim, if the Independent succeeded, would be a citywide daily...
...having passed on this bit of wisdom, the Chief Editorial Writer went back to sleep, pausing only to wonder if the Student Council Sub-Committee on Food would get to work nice and early next term. Possibly, he thought drowsily, and if it doesn't ...well, you can't go on quoting William James forever...
David E. Lillenthal of Adams House and Rockville, Md.: Assistant Editorial Chairman of CRIMSON; Unofficial Counsel to the Sub-Committee of the Unofficial Committee Investigating the Council Committee on Food; Ping Pong; 3-Meter Dive...
They recommended that witnesses have the right to counsel and a limited right to cross-examine accusers; that witnesses who "candidly" answer questions be allowed to make written or oral statements; and that a majority of the committee approve all sub-committee reports before they are rushed into headlines...