Word: arounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then move in on the columned portico of the Capitol for dramatic close-ups of top-hatted diplomats and politicians, skull-capped Supreme Court Justices, Arabs in flowing kaffiyas, papal knights in plumed cocked hats. The camera eye glanced up at the lazy wandering of a Navy blimp, and around at the wide lawn jammed with humanity. Then it came back to the inaugural stand as the natty, smiling little man, in whose honor the multitude was assembled, stepped onto the rostrum...
...Rest your eyes frequently by glancing around the room...
...flag lines flying the North Atlantic. Damon had been an admirer of Howard Hughes since he had produced Hell's Angels, but had not met him until 1938 when Hughes was getting ready for his four-day, round-the-world flight. As the dashing, disheveled Hughes puttered around his plane, Damon, like any awed autograph hound, rushed up and introduced himself. They had since become friends. Said Damon: "I am a great admirer of Howard Hughes." Said Hughes: "Mr. Damon's reputation ... is such that any airline would be fortunate to obtain his services...
Three on a Route? Damon had a tough job on his hands-and knew it. T.W.A. had lost around $3,000,000 last year and needed something like a miracle man to make it pay off. As a start, Damon planned to spend most of his first year "traveling T.W.A. routes from San Francisco to Bombay, assimilating all the important information" about the line. An unruffled diplomat, Damon also seemed a likely man to get along with eccentric, erratic Howard Hughes...
...convinced them that they could profitably boost their business by buying used bags from bakers, processing them into tea towels, and selling them through retailers. Bag dealers were soon buying bakers' used cotton bags for as much as 25? apiece, thus cutting the original cost to bakers to around 7?-well under paper prices...