Word: clips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is no better training. Any man in sail had to learn to make right decisions instantly, he argues. That Jimmy Bisset learned his lesson well is shown by his accident-free later service. On the Queen Mary he carried as many as 15,000 U.S. soldiers at a clip through the Atlantic's sub-infested waters, ferried Winston Churchill to rendezvous with President Franklin D. Roosevelt-enough adventure for another volume. When Cambridge University gave him an LL.D., its orator called him "navigatorum principem, tempestatum hostiumque irrisorem" -prince of navigators and scorner of danger, from both storm...
...this has been achieved in spite of the prolonged slump of Willie Mays, whose batting average has dropped 52 points in the last month (to .342) as he poked along at an anemic .231 clip. The key to the 1958 Giants lies with a phenomenal crop of rookies...
...experts think that inventory liquidation, still proceeding at a fantastic $7 billion annual clip, will level off rapidly, perhaps even reverse into a modest inventory accumulation. The uncertainties of international affairs will cause many a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer to think twice before eating more deeply into his stocks. The wise businessmen will tend to keep inventories level, or increase them a bit as a hedge against possible emergency. Said a Cleveland machine tool manufacturer: "Our story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion...
...swimming pool in upper Westchester County: "I don't put on a girdle until Monday." But every Monday Sylvia returns to an apartment on lower Fifth Avenue and to her office at the Post, where-puffing Philip Morris cigarettes and rattling off her sentences at a deadline-racing clip-she delights in making as many dollars and as much sense as she can out of the clutter of financial facts...
...Rosi cherishes his anonymity. But to the painted popsies of the world's most famed red-light district, he is well known as Père Pigalle, and his phone number is carried in many a swinging handbag. The neon-lighted little night world of bars, nudity and clip joints is his mission field...