Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to glory just like Steve Broady-but with a much bigger bang. Like the pilot of Old 97, he had been logging close to 90 m.p.h. as he rocketed across the South from Baltimore to Washington. His 250-ton electric locomotive and 16 cars of the crack Federal Express were on a slight downgrade. And when he reached for his air brakes at the outskirts of the capital, he found to his horror and amazement that they had failed...
...Lourie began as a statistics clerk at Quaker Oats; by 1947 he was company president. In his college days an All-America quarterback, he is still trim and something of an athlete, playing a lot of squash rackets and some golf (average score: low 90s). A crack administrator, friendly and not stuffy, he gets results by encouraging rather than nagging...
...expeditions to Africa, Australia, Borneo and the South Seas with first husband Martin Johnson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Johnsons traveled a million miles together in 27 years, flew their own amphibian (Osa's Ark), produced six books and 13 movies (a crack shot, she would drop attacking lions and rhinos at his feet as he stood fast, grinding the camera). After Johnson's death in a commercial-plane crash in 1937. Osa led a six-month safari into Africa, married and divorced her booking manager, and was getting ready for a new African safari when...
Woolman has another plan up for CAB approval-a merger with Northeast Airlines (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950). If approved, the merger will give him a route into New York, and a crack at the rich North-South traffic now enjoyed by Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines...
...right away, since it is springtime in Australia), now thinks he may do it if he can find someone to pace a well-judged first half-mile. The reason for his hurry: "The boys in Europe are getting close to it now, and they're almost certain to crack four minutes during their next track season...