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...Annie) in 1931. After it was separated from NBC, the Blue got rid of its four sponsored soaps and looked around for something to replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors. If the Blue's survey was correct, the network undoubtedly had a case for its soapless policy. If not, it had at least made history by publishing a survey which did not try to prove that it was the best network...
...could and lightened her as much as possible. On the shore, some 200 yards away, winches were anchored in the ground and from them steel cables were strung across the water and fixed to clamps fastened along the Oklahoma's bottom. The winches turned, the cables began to pull, and very gradually, inch by inch, the big ship rolled. Week after week the process went on. The clamps were moved up the ship's hull to get a higher pull. Her topsides appeared. She lifted her muck-covered head out of the water, until the cables could...
...paid for six months ... He tole them to get in line ... Things certainly were picking up ... Next he was notified there were three dead bodies below with their transfer pay accounts. Next came three wives who claimed their husbands were on Skmc because of their own misconduct ... Ensign Drawers pulled out a special desk for them to sit on and first with the new pay clerk who had just flunked out of the Harvard supply school ... Ensign Drawers couldn't find anything in his specimens as to how to do six different things at the same time. The C. O.ordered...
...Diego's Balboa Park Zoo, there was a quiet shift in emphasis: two horses marked for slaughter now pull a plow in the victory garden. Top billing at San Diego still goes to Ngagi, the slow, silent, 639-lb. gorilla. Ngagi's cage mate, Mbongo (645 lb.), died last year; he now has a lady friend, a mere shrimp named Kenya...
...Russian infantry. It was U.S. infantry, supported by superb artillery fire, which unbuttoned the first button along the front - a tough position known as Hill 609. They hit this hill with courage and craft, and took it. And when they took it, the surprised Germans found themselves forced to pull out, not just a hill or two away, but for several miles, sacrificing Mateur and eventually Bizerte...