Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managed to hobble into the front room where she was sitting and during the conversation she asked me if I would like her to give me a treatment. Right then something told me from within that I would regain all my strength; so I answered 'Yes, go ahead.' While she was talking everything in the room began to clear. I could even see the color of her eyes, which were blue. It was as if a fog had lifted. I stood up and wanted to walk out in the clear air and did for a three-mile walk...
...railroad clerk, Nelson had set the pace in the first round of the Augusta National Masters' Tournament with a record-breaking 66. His second round 72 left him in front, but after his third, a 75, ponderous Ralph Guldahl, whose third round was a 68, was four strokes ahead of him. Now, with nine holes left to play, Guldahl, just ahead of Nelson on the course, still had the same advantage...
...five years through 1936 the value of Canada's mineral output soared from $191,000,000 to a new high of $360,000,000, nearly one-third in gold alone. The total of dividend payments by Dominion mines more than tripled. Mining now ranks ahead of lumber and newsprint as the most important Dominion industry outside of agriculture. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, now merged with its old mining rival, not only outstrips the Montreal market in dollar-volume of trading but also exceeds every exchange in North America except New York's "Big Board" and the Curb...
...General Wood's letter to stockholders was devoted to outlining responsibilities: 1) to the public; 2) to employes (48,200); 3) to stockholders (42,700); 4) to Sears' sources of supplies (6,461 manufacturers). After pointing with pride to the company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings & Profit Sharing Pension Fund through which the workers have become the largest single stockholding group in Sears, Roebuck & Co. (9.2%). Inaugurated in 1916 by the late great Julius...
...Dave. When Allen scraped together enough money to buy the local paper he proceeded to set the town on its ear. Subscriptions fell off but needy friends rallied to Allen's cause. Jordanstown's bosses dropped Allen a hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort. When the cheering marchers got there, the chief of police and a committee of plug-uglies were waiting for them. In the riot Dave...