Word: floated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rinehart; $2.50), though it is less original than his The Anointed (1937). Gilbert Sullivan (whose middle name was not "&") leaves Chicago to wander through Texas, Mexico, California with a rogue who gathers funds for a monument to the "martyred" Judas Iscariot. Sullivan's obsession is that he can float through the air by expanding his body cells. On an eerie Pacific beach he makes a brief will-powered flight, dismisses his talent for political reasons...
...last week, no gloomy prophecies about the floating bridge had been fulfilled. No pontoons had sunk, none had been wrenched loose by storms, there was no sign of a leak. Amazed visitors still asked, "How do they float?" but always ventured across. Toll revenue for July and August on the bridge, from cars, busses, trucks, pedestrians, totaled...
...Swiss-born Camille Dreyfus, president of $66,000,000 Celanese Corp., has never felt the damp hand of deficit-even in 1932 Celanese cleared $891,866, in 1933 $5,453,903, in 1939 $6,216,781. Last week, getting ready to float a $25,000,000 debenture issue ($15,000,000 new money), he titillated the stockmarket by reporting the best six-month earnings in Celanese history...
...Indianapolis Power & Light Co., which last April became the first post-Depression electric utility to float new-money common stock (TIME, April 15), offered $32,000,000 in 3¼% bonds, proceeds of which will be used to redeem 3¾% bonds...
From the banks, in the gathering darkness, it looked as if they passed the judges' float in a photo finish. But when the results were run up, Washington was declared the winner (for the third time in five years) by nearly half a length-with Syracuse third, Navy fourth and Princeton, making its debut in the Intercollegiate, eighth and last. To the victorious crew went added glory when it was learned that they had 1) rowed 2½ extra miles to the starting line earlier in the afternoon only to discover that, unbeknown to them, the race had been...