Word: scoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yankees' Progress. The newest things in U.S. cars were unveiled this week. Nash had spent about $15 million in development work and retooling for its new "Airflyte" line. The new Nash silhouette is long, wide and low, with a racy air-scoop grille. A single "Uniscope" mounted on the steering column holds the speedometer and other gauges normally on the dashboard. The Nash owner can still sleep in his car, but the new beds can be made up (by lowering the bisected front-seat backrest) into either a single or double bed, without disturbing the rear trunk-compartment...
...name of General George Patton for the job. The government, however, found it wise to disregard not only this piece of advice, but a staggeringly high percentage of the other suggestions Rankin offered in his brief tenure as de facto chairman of Dies' committee. In 1946, the Republican scoop displaced the Mississippian in favor of J. Parnell Thomas, whose opinions on Democratic administration and kindred subjects had been pretty well aired by this time...
...Scoop. In Topeka, Kans., the State Journal headlined a story on the city's new hook-&-ladder truck, NOW BRING ON YOUR TEN-FLOOR FIRE, two minutes after publication sent reporters to a fire in the ten-floor Hotel Kansan...
...graduated to the editorship of King Features Syndicate in Manhattan when a friendly Chicago cop telephoned him a mysterious summons in 1934. Lait rushed to Chicago and got his most famous scoop, standing a few feet away when G-men shot down Badman John Dillinger...
Chatty Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, was busting to tell the news that nearly everybody guessed (TIME, July 19). In a Page One editorial he spilled it: "We don't like to scoop the dear old lady of First and Spring on a secret she has so zealously guarded, but . . . on Monday . . . the Los Angeles Times will announce that she is expecting. It will be a spanking new tabloid newspaper, to be born in the afternoon field some time early in October...