Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard-Dartmouth slalom in Tucker man's Ravino, the Hanover skiers yesterday gained a decisive victory over the Crimson. This race marks the end of the official ski-racing season, since the inferno from the top of the Headwall has been canceled for lack of snow on the Sherburne trail...
...Fourth was a new outfit, put together last summer after having been inactive since World War I, the first of the regular Army's nine streamlined divisions to be fully motorized. This march, and everything the Fourth would do hereafter, was trail-blazing for the Army in a new tactical field in which infantrymen ride to battle and get out to walk only when it is time to fight...
Behind all this ferment were some un-fevered facts. Whenever industry skyrockets, labor troubles follow inevitably in a smoky trail. At last midweek the number of strikes in defense industries had actually dropped from twoscore a few weeks ago, with 47,000 workers out, to 27, with an estimated 40,000 out. There were still some 36,000,000 people in the U. S. (not counting agricultural workers) at work...
...publicity to the Valtin program. But long-nosed Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons sniffed out the news. Forthwith Washington began to stir.But reporters did not spot Valtin before the show and they did not find him afterward. While they waited outside Manager Dolph's penthouse apartment, intending to trail him to the broadcast, Valtin was ushered in by a back door, planted before a mike rigged up that afternoon...
...comedy hauled out of this unremarkable framework is one part radio, one part vaudeville, one part lunacy. The trail of the safari through the jungle is illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen...