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As publisher of the Examiner, he shied away from canned Hearst projects, built its circulation to the highest in the city by "putting out a neighborhood paper for the guy next door." A quiet, popular boss with an impassive face and bearing of a benevolent Buddha, Lindner let Managing Editor...
The Standing Committee made a halfhearted answer: it decided to issue no credentials to any new Tassmen in the future. But it shied away from barring Tass representatives already on the job, because it was afraid it might be construed as a limitation of press freedom in the U.S.
Interior interviewed a flock of candidates, but had little luck. Most of the prospects shied away when they found that high construction costs would prevent them from selling aluminum profitably for less than 22? a lb., v. the Big Three's price of 18? based on equipment built at...
Russian pilots flew like Cossacks. They liked to toss off bottles of vodka, hurtle down the runway, take off simply by hauling up their wheels. In combat, Red flight leaders flew above and behind their men to make sure no one shied away. They were never the finely honed flyers...
Most Britons thought that the Labor Government would make haste slowly when it nationalized the steel industry last February. They reasoned that the government would string along with the management that had made steel one of the most efficient industries in Great Britain. But Conservative War Horse Winston Churchill shied...