Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legs. Another cost booster was overall inefficiency. Production hands liked their overtime; production heads were no longer anxious to finish a picture that might be kept in the can for two or three years. Typical result: 20th Century, which a few years ago finished pictures in an average of 47 days, now takes 85 days...
When U.S. airlines were young and gay, they were so anxious to attract passengers that they were politer than so many Lord Chesterfields. Even when passengers made reservations, then failed to show up at flight time, it was quite all right. These "no-shows" cost the lines an estimated $8 million a year, and were the chief reason many planes took off with half their seats empty...
...Council's functions in the College. Axt supplied the answer in brief: "....representing the undergraduates in University Hall, and.... sounded out University Hall ideas in the student body." Asked whether that made the Council a rubber stamp for University Hall, Axt remarked that the Administration was so anxious to follow student opinion on most issues that the opposite would be nearer the truth...
...neither Mr. Truman nor any other regular Democrat was anxious to give U.S. voters this judicial opportunity. Mr. Truman would be politicking for his life from now on. So would colleagues like Senator Alben Barkley, who was in a Cincinnati hotel room last week (see cut), getting ready to cross the river and beat his native Kentucky bushes for his fellow Democrat, Kentucky senatorial candidate John Y. Brown (see Political Notes). Far & wide, Democrats and Republicans were at the work they know best: politics...
...dubious indeed. Few families and few wage earners are not closely tied to one or more veterans; and the astronomic sums necessary to give each veteran even a few hundred dollars would have to be taken in taxes from the families or relatives of ex-servicemen. Veteran groups, anxious to serve the nation as well as themselves, have decided that their efforts can be most advantageously directed toward securing a sufficiency of low cost housing or suppressing the current inflationary boom. These too have been the aims of able and sincere politicians who have refused to court the veteran vote...