Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...15th anniversary of the great Wall Street debacle, trading on the New York Stock Exchange was steady but dull. But investors were busier than at any time since 1929-cashing dividend checks. Dividend payments on 857 common stocks for the first nine months of the year were $1.5 billion-up 7% over a year ago, and about...
Franklin Roosevelt, in his role as Commander in Chief, gazed through the dull drizzle at the tanks and bulldozers, the jeeps and howitzers ready for loading on merchant ships, took the cheers of 40,000 workers, then moved on to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the super-battleships Missouri and Iowa were built, where the battered old Texas rested in dock for repairs. Driving down the bustling streets, past the giant Hammerhead Crane, the President was seen by more than half the yard's 70,000 workers. They cheered...
Chance in the Middle. But the local staff was weak. Page One was dull; the editorial page was stodgy. The first Knight ukase on the bulletin board: "Short leads and short sentences. No lead [opening paragraph] is to be more than three typewritten lines, two if possible." Chicago would get frequent samples of Knight's own "personal journalism": punchy editorials in short, snappy sentences. Knight writes a weekly "Publisher's Notebook" for all his papers...
Even before Jap air power was finally liquidated in the South Pacific and the war moved to the west, most Marine air outfits found themselves hunting for vanishing game. Life got to be dull and morale flagged...
Teresa got herself a job and waited. Only after eight more months did she finally come to realize what readers will have decided already. "How stupid he is," she said to herself. "How dull...