Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America, which organizes summer meetings in New England to which members drive their old automobiles. This summer, in Teterboro, Vermont, Little won a race at one of these gatherings with his present '21 Model T. To win, he had to circle a track twice and remove a spark-plug before anyone else could do the same...
...prize off to his farm near Hollywood, Md., proudly stood by as Jordan elaborated his story for other reporters. "It is now apparent that Harry Hopkins gave Russia the A-bomb on a platter," said Jordan. Kotikov would call the Russian embassy, he said, and the embassy would "plug in Harry Hopkins at the White House-they had a direct wire . . . Hopkins and I got to know each other very well over the phone...
...Stafford Cripps, who thought the British government had devalued the pound to rock bottom, brushed off the cheap pounds as insignificant. But exporters estimated that $60 million a year are being lost by Britain by use of the cheap pounds to pay for British exports. Britain had hoped to plug such leaks when she devalued in the first place...
...most personal-appearance tours are sponsored by the studios, who pay the stars their regular salaries, plus expenses, to plug their latest pictures. In New York, to tout Pinky and Everybody Does It, Jeanne Grain, William Lundigan, Ethel Waters and Paul Douglas were whisked onto the stages of 23 neighborhood theaters in three evenings. Al Jolson, who only two years ago turned down $40,000 for a week's engagement in Manhattan, has been appearing without pay for months as a living trailer for Jolson Sings Again. (His incentive: 40% of the film's profits...
Effusive Abe Spanel, board chairman of the International Latex Corp. (baby pants, girdles, pillows), likes to buy space in newspapers to print his own opinions and those of people he admires (e.g., Sumner Welles, Robert M. Hutchins)-and incidentally to plug his company. In March 1945, Pegler took off on Businessman Spanel and his ads, saying one was "a poetic construction well expressing the attitude of some demagogues of the extreme left ... A native of Russia and an admirer of the Soviet system might be pardoned in the error." The Journal-American headlined the column: AMERICAN PAPERS SELL ADVERTISING SPACE...