Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pants. A jowly, barrel-shaped operator addicted to ice-cream sodas, Wald is at his bungalow office on the Fox lot every day at 7 a.m. For three hours he reads, reads, reads ("I can finish a book between 7 and 10") and chatters his reactions into a recording machine. His interest in books dates back to his days at N.Y.U.. where he studied under Thomas Wolfe. Wald did not forget that prolix prose poet's advice: "Gentlemen, never write anything but masterpieces; there's such a good market for them." Says Wald: "That...
...four sites around Taipei, engineers of the U.S.'s Vinnell Co. rushed construction of launching sites for Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missiles. Vinnell, which normally takes a year to build a Nike site in the U.S., has undertaken a crash program to finish the sites in 50 days, though it still had no formal contract nor any blueprints. Banking on Vinnell's know-how, the Army last week flew in an advance party of a missile battalion from Texas...
Billed as the "Bridge Battle of the Century," the four-week Lenz-Culbertson match was the most publicized card joust in history. The wire services had top reporters covering the match from start to finish, papers put out extras on results, and readers who could not tell a doubleton from a double followed the daily point score. Lenz and Jacoby got off to an early lead, but at the end of the 150th rubber the Culbertson partnership was ahead by 8,980 points, and Lenz paid up. That ended any small remaining doubt about whether Culbertson...
...boosted lowest price models by $63, lopped $491 off its top-price line. But the prices were not strictly comparable to last year's because Buick completely changed all its cars, and some of the '59s will carry 1958 extras as standard equipment, e.g., acrylic lacquer finish that General Motors says retains 75% of its original sheen after a year's exposure...
Stein Way. In Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, crewmen from a German timber freighter said they had run out of water during their voyage, but had been able to finish the trip on beer...