Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan "to improve Childs's fare" [TIME, Dec. 13]. I am happy, however, to advise you are mistaken in saying that "this year's sales have dipped below 1947." In spite of the fact that we are operating two less stores, our food sales are running ahead of last year and our liquor sales only slightly behind last year...
...cold war"). In divided, blockaded Berlin, under the now familiar drone of the airlift planes, most bureau-men planned to spend New Year's quietly at home, or, more likely, out covering the news. In Shanghai, where no one could plan more than a few days ahead, TIME Inc.'s staff could not be sure of celebrating at all. A month from now, if Shanghai still stands, Chinese staff members will celebrate their New Year by paying their debts, visiting relatives, giving children lucky money in red envelopes, feasting on shrimp for happiness and chicken for peace...
...congress moved smoothly ahead on schedule. Delegates applauded on cue, unanimously approved one after another of the government's proposals (including the one to increase the population). Looking forward to unsettled times, the Bulgarian Union of Sports denounced tennis as a bourgeois pastime; henceforth, sportsmen will be instructed in "shooting competitions, handling and unmounting of different weapons, the use of ordinary and automatic rifles, pistols and machine guns...
...case, the council's two-way verdict constituted a first-class tactical save for Nicaragua's strong man, "Tacho" Somoza. Tough Tacho, the only Nicaraguan who could have given the go-ahead signal for the Costa Rican adventure, narrowly escaped getting his fingers burned when Costa Rica invoked the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense...
Everything about U.S. television is big -including its losses. Not one TV station is yet in the black. NBC operates its television network at an estimated loss of $13,000 a day. But with all its imponderables (see BUSINESS), U.S. television continues to snowball ahead at the rate of 1,000 new sets installed every 24 hours...