Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...step up its spending in an all-out effort to bolster its badly skidding sales, hurt by Buick's stodgy styling. Buick, in third place only two years ago, is now in fifth, behind Plymouth and Oldsmobile. What Ragsdale apparently wanted was the same kind of eye-catching "Forward Look" campaign that McGann-Erickson had worked out for Chrysler. He could also use some of McCann-Erickson's research facilities to find out how to make his car sell...
...Getty Oil bought for $3 when Getty took over Pacific Western in 1932 is now worth $152, counting stock splits. In the same manner, Skelly Oil stock has risen from $26, when the company came into Getty's hands in 1937, to $231 today; Tidewater has marched forward from $19 in 1951 to $93 today...
...such a firebird that he loved going to the zoo "to watch the wild animals at feeding time, when they devoured the raw meat." But in mien and in amour he was "so disciplined, so logical, so conservative." Dagmar's heart leaped when, at long last, Igor bent forward and murmured: "Come tomorrow night"-then added: "I so want you to meet my wife." Igor and Dagmar "would sit for hours sipping Dubonnet while he unburdened himself" and inveighed against his critics. "Why do they blame me for my music?" he would rage. "Why don't they blame...
Junior Carl Belz, an All-Ivy Leaguer last year, is probably Princeton's best shot. A six-foot four-inch forward, Belz has been sidelined with an ankle injury lately and is a doubtful starter for tonight's game. If he goes not play, twin brother Herman, an excellent rebounder but less dangerous shotmaker, will start in his place...
...evolution as a land animal." His latest book carries glimmerings of the awesome dimensions of that step, but at times, the dialogue interferes. One line, at least, should be permanently retired. A minor planet is graced with the unexpected landing of a giant rocketship. The flustered local dignitary goes forward to greet the visitors. For a moment words fail him, and then he blurts out: "You're from Earth-I presume...