Word: follower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue will follow a strict A, B, C procedure, and less confusion in finding courses and professors is promised. There are some 1120 pages in the new book, which will be sent to 2600 schools and colleges throughout the world...
...possible (mainly of durable goods) against possible war-goods shortages in 1941. Last week November's returns from the non-defense sector of the economy were coming in. They showed that late autumn consumption had begun to respond to the powerful stimulus of defense spending, was beginning to follow 1940's record production into a two-sided boom. Items...
...ships. Since the war began, England and Canada have bought or arranged to buy 168 old vessels totaling 627,600 tons (deadweight) from U. S. owners (including 36 vessels from World War I's laid-up fleet). Deals are under way now for 45 more, and others may follow. Since almost any seagoing vessel is adequate for use in convoys, which travel slowly, Britain is better off buying old ships at low prices than new ones at high prices...
...becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida"; -"Salida, the Heart of the Rockies." Local bathing beauties posed for the leg art (see cut). The campaign went over fine with the tourists. So did W. B.'s promotion of the fur-bearing trout, which even got into the newsreels...
...fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz saw. But the arrival of sound was tough on Mexicans, who had to follow the dialogue either with badly written Spanish titles superimposed on the picture or with Spanish voices clumsily dubbed on to the sound track...