Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...locks him in. When he does succeed in getting near enough to a girl to make a pass, she bloodies his nose for his unfaithfulness to his overpublicized "fiancee." When he goes to a newsreel theater to see what they have made of him ("Hero of the Week," the billboard bellows) and can't keep his opinions on his stomach, an infuriated civilian turns in the dark and cracks...
...first U.S. troops had scarcely entered Paris last August when huge billboard posters with an American-flag background appeared all over the city. On them was this legend: "Congratulations on a job well done-Hart Schaffner & Marx." A few days later the London Daily Mail angrily protested that American businessmen in uniform were transacting business in Paris. But who had scored this advertising scoop for the big U.S. clothing firm no one seemed able...
...Athenaeum was soon extravagantly restored. Its new, heavily-gilded proscenium and cushioned seats (the first in any Boston theatre) led an inspired advertising agent to boast in billboard posters...
...radio does not worry about the possibility of the British Broadcasting Corp. invading the U.S. air. But results of a BBC survey, announced last week in Billboard, show that at least four of its U.S.-aimed programs (Transatlantic Call, Stars & Stripes in Britain, American Eagle Club and Radio Newsreel) have caught on with two U.S. audiences: the A (high income-education) and the D (lowest income-education) groups...
...Kleiser and Foster picked up a $75,000 advertising business in Portland and Seattle for $5,000 cash (they gave notes for the rest), expanded it up & down the coast, were grossing an average of $5,500,000 yearly when war blacked out the West Coast billboard business...