Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets of Berlin, hope grew thinner, as did the long-familiar, reassuring roar of the airlift planes. The three Western commandants asked their Military Governments to make Berlin a long-term loan of $136 million. Before flying to Washington last week, where he is seeking new recruits for the fast-dwindling U.S. occupation staff, High Commissioner John McCloy promised Mayor Reuter that he would try to get direct Marshall Aid for Berlin. The U.S. expected the city's defense to continue costing money...
...Gallinger Municipal Hospital it was found that the slug had pierced the right frontal lobe of the brain. Chapman began to have convulsions, and lost consciousness. In an operation, a partial cutting of the connective nerve fibers was inevitable. The surgical treatment was successful; physically, Chapman recovered fast...
Last week, Lilli was making news again in England, and, with Victor, Columbia, Decca et al. catching up fast, she was about to do likewise in the U.S. Leading Britain's hit parade for the sixth week was a simple little ditty bringing the story up to date. Lyricist Tommie (Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree) Connor, who had written a set of words for an English version of the original Lilli song, had figured that most of her wartime admirers were back home with wives of their own; so, with Songsmith Johnny Reine providing matrimonial music, he had made...
Despite this mushrooming, Joyce's founder and president, handsome William Henry Joyce Jr., 49, is taking no chances. For the past month, he has been skittering around Europe building his business. Last week, fast-moving Bill Joyce flew into London from Paris, announced that he was completing a deal to introduce Joyce shoes in France this fall. Like other foreign licensees, the French company will make the shoes according to Joyce specifications, pay a percentage on every pair sold...
Sales zoomed so fast that he had to raise $22,000 (from friends) to finance his supply inventories. Within five years Joyce's sales crossed the $1,000,000-a-year mark. In 1938 Bill Joyce hired (at $25 a week), and shortly afterward married, pert, raven-haired Faie Jarmel, onetime designer at Macy's. She put smart styling into Joyce shoes...