Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular U.S. magazine, the young Colombian spied an ad that roused his dreams. The American correspondence school promised a radio and electronics course, equipment to study with. To raise tuition, the boy's father sold the family house. Off went his precious pesos-and the school was never heard from. In Bogotá, the U.S. consul nodded wearily as the victims denounced the "wicked and harmful" deception...
...handsomely that NBC decided to make them a habit. (Said Brinkley wryly of this sudden prominence: "I did what I'd been doing for years, but people paid attention.") In October 1956, Huntley and Brinkley-who had not even met before their paths crossed at the conventions-went on the air with the two-headed, 15-minute newscast, have been there ever since...
Another memorable letter in their heavy fan mail came from a woman whose devotion made them wince. She and her husband were so attached to the show, she said, that when they went to sleep at night, they always used the Huntley-Brinkley sign-off, one of them saying, "Good night, Chet," and the other replying, "Good night, David...
From there, Writer Schiff went on to more innuendo: "I wondered why Hoover had lost his head. Why was he so scared? Drawing upon my knowledge of psychology, I decided he must be afraid that something damaging about his private life would be revealed in the series." But, said she piously, the Post had no intention of doing any such thing. At week's end, after four disorganized, unilluminating episodes, the series had produced nothing more damaging than the fact that the director of the FBI, as a boy, sang soprano in the church choir...
...told, 108,000 individuals and organizations bought nearly half of the $2 billion issue. Only 26.6% went to commercial banks; thus Treasury officials were highly pleased that most of the issue was kept out of the commercial banking system, which pays for Government securities with newly created dollars. The Government increases the nation's purchasing power when spending these dollars, thus adds to inflationary pressures...