Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened fire with its single small forward gun as cannon from the fort returned rounds of blanks. At battle's end the flag on the fort still waved proudly. Thus re-enacted last week on its 125th anniversary was the episode which inspired Lawyer Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Trouble in 1949 hinges on an exchange of car keys for which the author makes no provision). Possibly two prides-the Irishman's and the craftsman's-conspire to allow O'Hara no ambitious flops. But readers who are not reporters will wonder how anyone can write so well and yet so rarely try to write better...
...Things they most needed to know in their jobs were how to write business letters, how to plan work for others, how to prepare statistical reports, how to interpret economic trends...
...Saving the day for CBS, however, was Brooklyn-born Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch, Bombs Bursting in Air), who served through the World War with the Australians, spent eight years in the U. S. Army, resigned in 1932 so he could write & talk about war without being interrupted. From London Major Eliot broadcast six times last week for CBS. Night before war was declared he predicted: 1) "It is impossible for Germany to defeat Poland plus France plus Britain," 2) there would be no immediate bombing of French or British cities, at least until Hitler...
...building in Bloomsbury (taken over from the University of London), a mile away from Fleet Street. Here are issued all official press bulletins. A teletype printer flashes them to newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...