Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Portugal, Austria and Denmark have stopped inflation, ended shortages and are eager to sell abroad. Even still-ailing France and Italy are ready to go along with the trend and free their traders and citizens from the old currency controls...
...educate stockholders and keep them eager to support the companies they own, some corporations have formed special departments to stir up stockholder interest. Giant A.T. & T., with some 1,300,000 stockholders, has a department with a full-time staff of more than 300 employees to handle stockholders as if they were all members of one big happy family. A.T. & T. has even got its stockholders hotel reservations in New York and has met their boats, planes or trains when they travel. A.T. & T. sends welcome letters to all new stockholders, sends out a flood of quarterly reports and newsletters...
Carmichael found it easy to finance the deal through Vickers since the British are eager to break into the U.S. market. By 1957 Viscounts should completely retire Capital's Constellations and a good part of its fleet of DC-3s and DC-4s. One big advantage: the Viscount can operate from all but three of the 51 fields on Capital's routes, whereas Capital's Constellations cannot operate from 15, and its DC-4s cannot operate from ten. Says Slim Carmichael: "This plane puts us close to the airline operator's ideal. . . . to serve the entire...
...that day in St. Petersburg. East Berlin's Friedrichstadt Palast theater was jammed to capacity (3,000) with German Communist dignitaries, workers' delegations, burnoosed and turbaned diplomats from a Red peace conference. Also present in the audience: quite a few esthetic spies from the West zone, eager for their first look at a full Soviet troupe...
...teams. The big-family family field is monopolized by Mamma, Life with Father and The Goldbergs. The young parents' division (both urban and suburban) is covered by Make Room for Daddy and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Cox and Actress Benoit can never hope to equal the eager smooching of Barry Nelson and Joan Caulfield (My Favorite Husband), the pratfalls of Joan Davis and Jim Backus (I Married Joan), or the downright silliness of Ray Milland and Phyllis Avery (Mr. McNutley). Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy) and Peg Lynch (Ethel and Albert) have all the first patents...