Word: tippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts published or still secret had come from a giant mechanism of men and machines, designed specifically to detect an atomic explosion anywhere in the world. When Intelligence got a tip that the Russians had solved the atomic riddle, the mechanism swung into action...
...incessant border squabbles along the bleak mountainous boundary between independent, isolated Yemen and the British Protectorate of Aden, on the southern tip of Arabia, are, as one British diplomat put it, part of the "burden of empire." Last spring, Aden's British Governor Sir Reginald Champion added another straw to his imperial burden. An Adenese chieftain, the Sharif of Beiham, had asked that a frontier customs post be set up to tap the rich stream of smuggled coffee, skins and qat (an Arabian drug) which kept flowing into his territory over an ancient traders' trail from Yemen. Governor...
...Manhattan, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden had a hot tip on the presidency in 1952: "I see very clearly that the truly American and conservative Democrat Judge Harold R. Medina [is] headed for the White House...
Besides cheery sex gags, Blackouts offers some highly special specialties-boy pianists, aged chorines and one-legged hoofers. There are also oldtimers like Composer Shelton (Some of These Days) Brooks and Guitarist Nick (Tip Toe Through the Tulips) Lucas; but they don't make things seem like old times. New, and nice to look at, is blonde Pat Williams, as the show's leading lady. Blackouts has its remarkable turns -a female contortionist, a set of trained lovebirds; but in the great days of vaudeville, they would merely have opened the show...
...guest columnist in the Houston Press, Oilman-Hotelman Glenn McCarthy raked up some 25 McCarthy rumors and denied them all. Insisted McCarthy: there is no feud between him and fellow Texan Jesse Jones; there is no such thing as a minimum tip at his Shamrock hotel; he is not trying to buy a newspaper, a movie studio, Catalina Island or the St. Louis Browns...