Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jumping-off points, it must transport troops, carry military air freight, find or train pilots for over-water runs. As the job grew greater, it needed more management manpower. The Air Corps Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, looked around for a helper, last week tapped tall, drawling Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Airlines president, for the job. "C.R.," an ace airline executive, pushed American to the top of the domestic airline heap...
...give the angry dealers relief, OPA's automan Cyrus McCormick has already promised that they will be allowed to sell at least 340,000 cars this year. Last week OPA eased the rules covering registration of new cars. Meanwhile Nash announced that it would lend its dealers $10 cash per car per month until March...
...Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...
...ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway over the Post's circulation department. (An adman became circulation manager.) He then proceeded to offset normally shrinking circulation by jettisoning the ultraconservative circulation methods which had long been Cyrus H. K. Curtis' pride...
...Cyrus Curtis' great contribution to U.S. publishing was the discovery that U.S. advertisers were so eager to have a real mass medium that they would gladly pay the cost of printing the copies if Curtis would get the circulation, even if the reader paid only a token payment. With that discovery of low-cost mass publishing, Cyrus revolutionized the magazine industry, made more money than any magazine publisher ever had before -more, perhaps, than any magazine publisher ever will again...