Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know yet . . ." said Unruh, in a matter-of-fact voice, "but it looks like a pretty good score." Why are you killing people? "I don't know," he said. "I can't answer that yet-I'm too busy. I'll have to talk to you later...
Slow Up. Whisked over to Des Moines in his DC-6, Truman gave the country's farmers a rousing fight talk over the heads of the delegates to the Amvets convention. "The new Congress has already repaired most of the damage done to farmers by the 80th Congress," he declared. "Of course, there are still many reactionary Senators and Representatives . . . still doing all they can to slow up our Congress, but they are not able to stop...
Justice over Ice. Last winter a white trapper who heard the story reported it to Mounties at Cambridge Bay. By plane and dog sled, two policemen went up to investigate. They found the guileless Eskimos-including Eeriykoot and Ishakak -perfectly willing to talk. The police arrested the two friends, exhumed Nukashook's body for an inquest...
Only ten years ago, he said, when the national income was $70 billion, people thought it fantastic to talk of its ever reaching $125 billion. "Now it has exceeded $200 billion. I don't think President Truman's goal of a $300 billion national income is fantastic at all, provided we maintain the American system about the way it is today. If we get farther over on the side of a planned economy, or socialism, I don't think...
...Manhattan's George Magnani, president of Magnani Mannequins, displayed a fashion dummy that talks. Named Patty Petiteen, the mannequin will plug dresses for the ten to 14 age group. Sample sales talk: "Mother loves my Petiteen dresses because they need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies...