Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...managed to play ball with recent Latin American dictators. It is more than friendly to Brazil's Dictator Getulio Vargas. It is not particularly concerned about Paraguay, where President Higinio Morinigo has declared himself dictator. But Paraguay is far away and Brazil is a pretty good clip, while the Republic of Panama, less than half as far, sits astride the most strategic waterway in the world...
Startling to many a sponsor were Miss McBride's broadcasts for WOR. Tooling along at a great verbal clip for 45 minutes, she frequently forgot which products she had plugged, usually wound up her show by asking her announcer if there was anything she'd overlooked. When sponsors complained about her methods, she told her listeners all about it, brought a deluge of letters to support her. Eager to prevent even "one teeny white lie" from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink...
Through the streets of Boston last fortnight clip-clopped a horse ridden by a Negro wearing a ballet costume and a red wig. The plug, advertising the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (see p. 38), was the bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...
...picture. There is the growing conviction among competent observers down at the practice field in the afternoons that if the Crimson Juniors can flash their weekday form on Saturdays, they will give the major opponents on their schedule all they can handle. Signal drills go along at a merry clip, with the squad beginning to acquire that fine veneer of polish and precision for which Harlow elevens are famous...
...pointed out a difference between 1940 and the classical overproduction year of 1937, in which steel output went into inventories, stayed there, caused the autumn depression. Trade reports indicate that steel inventories and steel backlogs are practically equal, backlogs being large enough to keep the mills at their present clip through the year's end, inventories being large enough to keep steel users supplied for no longer...