Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, the picture is not saved by the presence in the Bogart role of a tired, beat-up-looking actor who no longer seems to project the hard combustibility that he made famous. But Director Stuart Heisler accomplished one notable feat: by expert trick photography, impressionistic lighting and a tense atmosphere, he gives the impression that the movie was filmed entirely in the streets and houses of Tokyo...
...seizure of the mines or steel mills. No, the President told his news conference firmly, he had no such plans. "Have you any plans for intervention of any sort?" someone asked. No, said Mr. Truman, he had not. There was still a chance that federal mediation would do the trick, he said. If not, he added vaguely, the Government would go on from there...
...Curley so popular? The big reason is his colorful individuality. When he first ran for mayor, he bolted every other ward boss in the city--a trick commonly thought of at the time as political suicide. As soon as he was mayor, he jarred the banks by his out-of-town borrowing. He has made and broken political friendships with nearly everyone in Boston politics since 1900: Ely, Fitzgerald, Daniel B. Coakley, ex-governor Robert F. Bradford, Tobin and David I. Walsh. In no term as mayor has he built up a strong personal machine such as those operated...
...unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail...
...Joske's of Texas, a subsidiary of Allied Stores in San Antonio, went back to old-fashioned selling methods. Sales Promotion Vice President Jim Keenan plugged Frigidaires in splashy newspaper ads, cut out down payments and sent his 80 salesmen out to ring doorbells. Some used the old trick of following an ice wagon down the street to find householders still using iceboxes. One man stayed out so many nights selling that he finally decided to take his wife along: she talked to housewives while he cornered the husbands...