Word: bluest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gobbling up new routes and buying new planes. But even cautious lines like Pat Patterson's United had not been spared. In the first three months this year, United lost close to $3,000,000. That was a shock to the industry, for United has long been the bluest of its blue chips and it has shouldered the second heaviest domestic traffic burden. Its routes stretched 10,079 miles, including a Mexican subsidiary, Lamsa, second greatest on the continent (American is first); in 1946 United accounted for 18% of total passenger miles and about 30% of all domestic airmail...
...toll was terrific. The volume of sales was 2,900,000 shares, the highest since last January. Only 32 issues had advanced, while 548 had reached new lows for the year. Down went General Motors, U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward and Union Pacific, along with the cats & dogs. Du Pont, bluest of blue chips, suffered the worst loss of all-17 points...
Leverett Saltonstall, lantern-jawed Governor of Massachusetts, was brought forward by local Red Cross workers as the champion gubernatorial blood donor. He had just tinted their bank with his fourth pint of some of Boston's bluest blood...
...Harvardman the Pore is only a name. But the blindfolded initiates - among whom were Thomas Gardiner, son of the Pore's grand marshal, and R. Fulton Cutting 2nd - knew that they had entered one of the world's most exclusive clubs. Here had fraternized some of the bluest U. S. bloods - nine Adamses, seven Lowells, eleven Cabots. If the Lowells speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots only to God, the Pore is where they hold their...