Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosenberg's Rise. Yet no copy writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy...
...bewilderment of the Administration, far underestimates the meaning of the President's struggles with Congress, cursorily tackles the 1938 purge attempts, and, by skipping the six-year struggle over the Neutrality Act, grapples in the last chapter with Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy in a sort of vacuum...
This leaves radio playwriting an art in a vacuum, inhabited solely by writers, producers, performers and sponsors. A sense of the vacuum sometimes reduces the writer's respect for his audience to the sponsor's commercial level. Or the writer may be luckier than most showmen ever are. He may work for a sponsor, or for a broadcasting company, liberal enough to encourage first-class, spirited work in a medium of unplumbed possibilities...
...Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat parts), 3,962 Ib. to Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak parts), 3,149 Ib. to Filtex Corp. (vacuum-cleaner castings...
Then it did come to him. A million ideas rushed into the vacuum of Vag's mind all at once, and with the force of a hurricane. He saw the whole conference hour within the space of a few seconds . . . the knock on the door . . . Hello, sir. I'm terribly sorry about Monday. Isn't that a new Rembrandt print hanging over the mantlepiece? I think Rembrandt combines the best qualities of both the Dutch and Flemish schools of art, don't you? . . . What did you say? Psychology? Oh --that reminds me. I was talking to my section...