Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Talked long with former Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, who refused a post as one of the President's administrative assistants when he stepped down from the War Department. Louis Johnson said that he had been offered a new defense job, was taking a week to think it over...
...heads the Ministry for Press & Propaganda and so determines what Spaniards learn. He controls the police and so determines who shall live free or in prison. He heads the Ministry of Government (Interior), which now includes the Ministry of Communications, and so controls the post office, telephone, telegraph and cable systems. He heads the Falange Española Tradicionalista and so bosses Spain's sole political party, its 2,000,000 members, 800,000 associated female Falangistas and 600,000 Falange youths...
...audiences for classical music had boomed unprecedentedly; 3) radio surveys showed that some 9,000,000 listeners tuned in regularly on the broadcasts of Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony, 10,000,000 on those of the Metropolitan Opera Company; 4) when, late in 1938, the New York Post began offering albums of symphonic records at $1.93 as premiums to Post buyers (TIME, July 3, 1939), 200,000 albums were sold in the first seven months...
...Goodby, Boys. . . ." Last fortnight a Boston Globe reporter, Joseph Dinneen, a charter member of the Guild, onetime chairman of his unit, publicly repudiated the Guild in an article in The Saturday Evening Post. Title: Goodby, Boys, I'm Through...
...Among consumer industries, Coca-Cola Co. increased earnings 8% to $15,030,170 for the half year. Proud also was Coca-Cola of another announcement last week: Jim Farley, who needs a good paying job, will leave the Post Office Department to become chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp. Eastman Kodak, which still gets a third of its sales from amateur photographers, also makes money from plastics, reported $9,179,170 net, up 13.7% for 24 weeks ending June 15. For the first six months, stores were up too: J. C. Penney 4%, American Stores...