Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Building a Lifeline. Engineer Sayão, an old Government roadbuilder, faced the crisis in communications in his own way. The first thing he did in 1941, when Goiaz rice sold for 15? a bag for lack of transport to markets, was to cut a trail to Anapolis through 100 miles of forests. He soon turned this into the state's best road. Down it last year the colony's trucks carried 30 different products to market-including 20,000 bags of sugar, 12,000,000 pounds of watermelon, 120,000 dozen eggs, 50 jaguar skins...
...midnight last week two native boys finished work at Peleliu's naval compound, started home through the jungle. As they swung into the trail through the mangroves, prowlers jumped them. They dived for cover, with bullets zipping overhead. Next day they reported to the commander of Peleliu's tiny naval and Marine detachment that their attackers were Japanese guerrillas...
...appeared before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee to testify to Lilienthal's experience, ability and ideology. Scientists,' religious groups, plain citizens rallied to the Lilienthal cause. A Washington Post poll found 68% of the nation's Republican press pro-Lilienthal, only 14% anti. Atomic Trail-Blazer Albert Einstein urged confirmation. M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl Compton warned that many atomic scientists might take Lilienthal's defeat as the cue to pull out of the vast atomic projects...
Next came an interlude of cowboy tunes, including The Old Chisholm Trail ("Coma ti yi youpy, yappy yay, yappy yay, Coma ti yi youpy yappy yay," which probably sounded like static to Russian ears), a talk on a new cure for hay fever (the U.S. has 5,000,000 sufferers), and a new method of exploring the Milky Way. When the closing theme, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, went out over the air, Soviet Russia was still at least as distant as the Milky Way. Just as the Voice of America signed off, the Voice of Russia (Moscow Radio...
...cases, cinema publicity is far more offensive than any film would dare to be. No sooner do Hollywood publicity departments concoct an advance campaign built about the usual theme, sex, than the self-chosen censors catch the scent, and like a pack of bewildered blood-hounds, bay along the trail straight into the press agent's trap. Some taste must be applied to film advertising if the scope of film censorship is not to grow. The motion picture industry must play a responsible role and clean up this wing of its house if it expects film censorship to grow...