Word: billboard
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Along California highways last week, red, white & blue billboard posters shouted: "National Defense-A nation at work -Protect the open door for jobs for everyone-The open shop is the open door." California businessmen were rallying their forces for a last-ditch fight with labor...
...friends have claimed that when his anger really towers, he looks eight feet tall. Catalogues have been compiled of the things that touch him off: little boys who run outboard motors; wet boots that will not pull off easily; billboard advertising; Dorothy Thompson; intruders during working hours; cooks who carbonize and mummify ducks, partridges, trout; politicians ; Americans who are more interested in Europe's affairs than the U. S.; the cheerful squirplings (a Roberts word) of English sparrows; the New Deal; Pulitzer Prize awards; interior decorating. Disapproving of a mantelpiece in a house where he was a weekend guest...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 68, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Broadway Temple Methodist Church; after a gallstone operation; in Manhattan. Onetime Kansas newshawk, Dr. Reisner startled sophisticated New Yorkers with his promotion schemes to "sell" religion (billboard advertising, Broadway entertainers in the pulpit, hymn-whistling services, preaching in costume) succeeded in raising $3,000,000 for his skyscraper church (still unfinished) before the 1929 crash...
...Coming Towards You stands out like a billboard among current books of verse. It has its author's excitement to proclaim, and it proclaims it in images that crash all the gates of its reader's senses. As an eye-catcher, it rates 100; as an eye-opener, perhaps five...
...nearly so ambitious as the Brown plan, but a money-making radio venture nevertheless, was one uncovered last week at Dartmouth College by the show-business weekly, Billboard. The Dartmouth station, unofficially called WHD, is run by Senior Hugh Dryfoos of Manhattan in his room in Russell Sage Dormitory. Its audience: 40 other students in Russell Sage whose rooms are within WHD's broadcasting range-50 to 75 feet. WHD's transmitter: a one-tube gadget like those used in remote-control record players (and permitted license-free...