Word: correspondent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time to Re-Tire. A Dixon, Calif. newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires...
After four years at California's Pomona College and a spell with the Columbia School of Journalism, Mark Gaynre turned to Shanghai as foreign correspond ent for the Washington Post. On the side he worked for the famed Japanese news agency, Domei. "Rich, aggressive, news-wise and Empire-conscious," the agency inspired Gayn with "an almost pathologi cal curiosity about Japan." When Japan had begun its war with China, Domei did its best to keep Mark Gayn, nattered him, tolerated his anti-Japanese tirades in the Washington Post, even had him vaccinated for cholera and smallpox...
...Star was still loudly asserting that no second front had come into being. The new outlet for official unofficial Russian views, War and the Working Class, was politely calling departed U.S. Ambassador William Standley a spreader of statements (about publicity for Lend-Lease) "which did not correspond to the truth" and labeling AMG as too closely concerned with "security for Anglo-Saxon banking, industrial and trade circles." In London a Free Germany Movement emerged, perhaps to match Moscow's Free Germany Committee. Like its Russian counterpart, the Movement plugged unity and a free and democratic Germany, left the world...
...more than 2,000 individual planes of the average weight (6,400 lb.) produced so far this year, or more than 200 huge transports like Douglas' new DC-4 (which weighs 32 tons loaded). But dark, saturnine Donald Wills Douglas (whose friends say "his rare moments of elation correspond to the ordinary man's mild depressions") is nowhere near through making production records. His three big new Eastern plants will not be in full production till midsummer, and last week he announced the lease of still another huge factory: at the request of the Army, next month Douglas...
...Trouble. Undaunted, Correspond ent Treanor sidled up to some New Zealanders, was taken along into the Battle of El Alamein. Treanor went with them into enemy gunfire, saw five days of the battle before the British discovered him. This time they complained to the U.S. Army. Treanor was ordered by his paper to leave the Near East, fast. The first plane out was one bound for India. Treanor hopped...