Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...woman," wrote T. O. Thackrey, then editor of the Post, in a 1942 memo to the staff. The public unveiling-a full byline accompanied by a winsome half-column photograph-brought an odd sort of celebrity: one longtime column correspondent moodily addressed his next letter to "Darling" instead of "Dear Mr. Porter." From the U.S. Senate floor, in 1942, Colorado's Edwin Johnson branded her "the biggest liar in the United States" after a rash of Porter attacks on his silver policy. As the only lady business columnist in harness, she was in steady vogue as a lecturer. "After...
...courtly Valentino school of hand-kissing elegance. "Perhaps," said Norma Shearer last week, "that was where Noel Coward got the idea for his line: 'Every woman should be hit regularly-like a gong.' And for that sort of thing it was Gable who made villains popular. Instead of the audience's wanting the good man to get the girl, they wanted the bad man to get the girl...
...Instead of concentrating solely on industrial plants, many communities now realize that their biggest hope is to create or attract more service industries. Pennsylvania's service industry employment has steadily increased, jumped from 79,000 in 1950 to 103,900 this year. By attracting enough factories to employ 10,000 people, Scranton figured that it created 17,000 additional jobs in the service industries, retail businesses and professions. One reason: an average of three people leave the relief rolls for every new job created, thus increasing the market for services...
...acquisition of $180,000 instead of an expected $3,000,000 from the Program for Harvard College has caused "grave disappointment" to University Library officials, Paul H. Buck, Director of the Library, has asserted in the Annual Report...
Eisenhower's statement also urged American officials in other countries to buy in the United States, even though higher costs are involved, Smithies reported. "This means that the commissary of the Paris embassy must stock California wine instead of French," he added...