Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappointing was Oil Controller George Cottrelle's half-way-to-rationing experiment that Canadians fully expected real rationing before long. To give voluntaryism one last chance, one oil company advertised, urging consumers not to use its product. Sign on a billboard flanking a service station in Toronto...
...girl named Wallie ("Babe") Coughlin to inherit his legacy. But all he knew about her was that he had seen her in 1918 at the age of five, toddling around the stage of a burlesque house in Fort Wayne, Ind. To find her, ads were run in Variety and Billboard. But not until the Court of Missing Heirs took the matter in hand were 240 potential Babes unearthed, of whom only three felt sure enough of their identity to head for Canada to claim the legacy...
...offers in her two-hour tale is an extravagant picture of court finery, a romantic rehash of the exploits of the British fleet under Nelson, a fuzzy sketch of Nelson himself, a dazzling portrait of her own staggering beauty. There is no more feeling of life than in a billboard...
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...