Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles. How much more Braniff will get in its own country, to add to its well-fed inland service, Braniff Airways, Inc. could predict no more accurately than the dozens of other U.S. lines ascramble for new routes. But one thing was certain: Braniff's Mexican cousin had its start, was in competition in Mexico with big-league Pan American and American Airlines. Braniff had become an international system...
...They are helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...
...lays his career in shipbuilding to a fluke. At 14, a cousin suggested that they take the entrance examinations for Annapolis. Young Ferguson, who had given no thought to the Navy until then, agreed. A week later, he passed and was appointed...
...annual report for 1944, the Atlas president, blunt, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles (cousin of OPAdministrator Chester Bowles), told the stockholders: "The roof of the Fairhaven plant has so many leaks you can't count them all, and the floor is falling in all over the building. The sides of two of the boilers are caving in. The machinery is mostly very old and something falls in pieces almost every...
Married. Rouben Mamoulian, 47, lean, owl-eyed stage & screen director (Oklahoma!, Queen Christina); and Azadia Newman, 33, comely, lynx-eyed socialite portraitist, cousin of the Duchess of Windsor; he for the first time, she for the third; in Peekskill...