Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter's wedding party, could get Army-Navy "E" awards for his munitions plants, and could give and carry orders that Garsson's 27-year-old son, Joseph H. ("Bud") Garsson, was to be taken care of and protected in the Army. Along this shadowy trail Murray Garson...
From there on the trail followed by the Meadmen was a maze of 16 interlocked companies whose assets were kited back and forth with the stroke of a pen. Up went the combine's contracts-at war's end they had got $78,000,000 worth of business out of the Government...
...trail of lynch law led from the mob murder of four Negroes on a lonely Georgia roadside (TIME, Aug. 5) to a Mississippi bayou deep in the land of Bilbo. There it was marked by the battered corpse of a Negro tenant farmer floating in the scum...
Combining penny-pinching and trail-blazing is no soft task. Jack, the jovial, flashily sport-coated Warner in charge of production, has spent years policing the 120-acre lot at Burbank, making certain that no unnecessary lights are burning and that everybody is at work. Insisting that even high-bracket writers check in every morning by 9:30, Jack also knows how to deal with unimaginative studio types. He dreaded having to explain to Warner salesmen in 1935 that he planned to film a tony biography of Louis Pasteur. Paul Muni, he announced tersely, would be starred in a picture...
...benefit of newsmen, Jimmy publicly hit the sawdust trail. Said he: "I've never been on the far left. I have been just slightly left of center." But he was far enough to have given ill-concealed primary support to Rogers' Communist-supported opponent: Ellis Patterson...