Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year or two, it looked as if he had speculated wrongly about the future of air travel, had dangerously overexpanded. A subsidiary, American Overseas, had started transatlantic flights and lost money with almost every planeload. Domestic air travel did not expand nearly so fast as Smith expected. In the first three postwar years, American piled up losses of $6.7 million...
...American for $10.7 million. In 1949 American broke through the dark clouds with net earnings of more than $7,000,000. Thus encouraged, C.R. took a squint into the future and decided to expand again. He placed the first order for 25 of Douglas' big, fast DC-7s, which he got for some $700,000 less than later buyers, used them to begin the first roundtrip, nonstop flights across the continent. American has been in the black ever since '49; despite a slump in airline earnings, American held its own this year with nine-month earnings...
...blithery onetime Latin Quarter showgirl who wears a gold swizzle stick around her neck and a bubbly smile on her face. Well may she bubble; 17 months ago she "discovered" Lolita when she read excerpts in the Anchor Review and told an acquaintance about it. The acquaintance, now her fast friend: Walter Minton, president of Putnam's. Minton decided to publish the book, now has a major bestseller on his hands, and Scout Ridgewell has her cut (under a standing offer from Putnam's of a percentage for anyone who discovers "salable" book properties). She is getting...
...Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Sid Caesar fans must be fast afoot and nimble in the dialing finger if they are to catch him these days, but he can be seen briefly here. Color...
...completed 12 out of 20 passes in the half, all of them flat and bullet-fast, arrowing directly into the hands of his receivers. He carried the ball only three times, but these netted him 25 yards and two touchdowns. And his play-calling showed real cleverness and poise, especially in the clutch...