Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent out 40 Department of Sanitation garbage trucks to round up copies of a new magazine titled Man to Man, published by Country Press, a subsidiary of Fawcett Publications, Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., whose prosperous publishing business was founded on the late Captain Billy Fawcett's rowdy Whiz Bang (TIME...
...popularity, Thomas has few rivals in the newscasting business. He persistently runs rings around most of his fellow workers in the radio polls, is currently addressing his folksy, gee-whiz comments for Sun Oil Co. five times a week to an estimated audience of 10,000,000. Al though he has turned 48, he is just as relentlessly enthusiastic now as when he began, still rates with the Sears, Roebuck catalogue as an indispensable in the rural areas, where his following is greatest...
...Inside of Sports, which plugs Phillies cigars over an MBS network, has standing instructions to address himself to an audience of truck drivers making $18 a week. He follows those instructions almost to the letter, describes his technique as being of the "Aw-nuts rather than the Gee-whiz school of sportswriting." In an excited baritone, he calls a bum a bum, takes frequent pot shots at athletic bigwigs, squeezes the last drop of melodrama out of horse racing, ball games, fights, wrestling bouts. His only concessions to the carriage trade are seasonal references to tennis, polo and college track...
Ameripol is Goodrich's second important synthetic; its first, Koroseal. Both were developed in the laboratory of Goodrich's synthetic whiz, Waldo Semon. Goodrich is building a $300,000 plant in Akron to make tires of at least 50% Ameripol...
...Bruce. A lone Republican gleam came only from the Sixth District, where onetime fireball Pitcher Walter Johnson was nominated for Congress, and granted a 50-50 chance of election. The "Big Train," now a farmer, brushed hog feed off the hands that once sent baseballs smoking, said modestly: "Gee whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws in the wind still showed a general trend to the G. O. P., Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, still leading the field, maintained his second tack on foreign...