Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tage Bolander, Paris manager for TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, turned up in New York City a fortnight ago with an encouraging report of the state of TLI's operations in Western Europe. Said he, in part...
...want the American story and, despite their shortage of foreign exchange, are doing their best to make it available to their citizens via TIME, LIFE, and other American publications. Apparently, our readers feel the same way about us because our circulation continues to rise (against the prevailing trend in Western Europe) and our subscribers are renewing at a rate unusually high for us or any other publication...
Bradley 95, Western Kentucky...
...opposite effect in the east. A high-pressure area (the Bermuda High) was unusually strong and hung persistently off the coast. The wind circulating clockwise around it brought warm, moist air from over the Gulf Stream. Unchecked by the westerlies, it penetrated far into the interior, keeping the western cold away and giving the eastern U.S. a balmy "maritime" winter...
...Pacific Western Oil Corp.'s J. Paul Getty closed his big deal with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, for the oil concession in the King's half of the "neutral zone" between Arabia and Kuwait on the Persian Gulf (TIME, Feb. 21). Getty expects to start drilling in a few months, and will develop the zone with the American Independent...