Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hooper] says that 92,550 homes are called each month [for Hooper's special Coast rating report] on the Pacific web coverage area. ... On a 30-day breakdown, it gives about 3,000 calls daily . . . on the entire Pacific Coast. That's 108 calls per half-hour period. The current report shows 35% average sets in use. That means less than 40 respondents giving the Pacific Coast pace for half-hour listening! ... On that small a sample, Mr. Hooper can get odds from any professional gambler that ... he will eventually hit a night when not one single respondent...
...entity to which Trygve Lie had sworn loyalty was known to the world as the United Nations; no one was quite sure what that meant. Was it a new world, also? Or a legal figment, spinning a web of Whereases and Be it Resolveds between...
Fledgling P.I.A. was the baby of Clement Melville Keys, 70, who has sired many a line. A onetime classics professor, hockey player, and reporter, Keys got into big-time aviation by winning control of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., built around it a web of manufacturing and financial companies until he was probably the No. 1 U.S. air operator. In 1932, when he retired from aviation because of his health, Keys was a top executive of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., T.W.A North American Aviation, Inc., and a director of some ten other aviation companies...
Lashed to a froth by the baleful cries of ticket-hungry students, the Inter-House Dance Committee is hopefully exploring every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...
Signs of Stamina. Ed Martin had come to Philadelphia from the state capital in Harrisburg. During that trip he might have reflected on other signs of Republican stamina-the stone walls and rail fences marking off private property, the small-town centers of muscular little businesses, the web of great railroads, the cities of big and busy mills. True, Pittsburgh, sprawling to the westward, was disorderly, recently strikebound, and Democratic-controlled. But Pittsburgh was neatly fenced off by a gerrymander. In 1943 Ed Martin had signed the gerrymandering bill which had cut down Pittsburgh's Democratic influence...