Word: frowningly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establishment of a joint Spanish-Argentine steamship line; 3) eventual establishment of a South Atlantic airline to replace defunct Lati, bypassing unfriendly Brazil. Buenos Aires confirmed items 1 and 2, raised politely incredulous eyebrows at item 3. Item 3 moved Washington's eyebrows too, into a worried frown...
...been in such a hurry. The Board's plan for mobilizing the U.S. in a defense program was later submitted to the President, never saw the light of day. The Board was dissolved, and Wood went back to his Highland Park home outside Chicago, with good cause to frown over New Deal mismanagement...
Baltimore's WFBR and Pittsburgh's WCAE, MBS's two new outlets, were among the many stations being jogged around by NBC preparatory to selling its Blue network out of fear of FCC's frown. WFBR and WCAE had been Red network stations and chose to go Mutual rather than be put in the Blue package. Besides its acquisitions in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, Mutual will also take over next fortnight Buffalo's WGR, a CBS outlet, which decided to shift allegiance when its sister station WKBW moved to CBS. Next year Mutual will absorb three...
...plans to make aluminum by a new process using alunite instead of bauxite (TIME, June 16). The Bureau of Mines has approved the alunite process; so has OPM's staff of technical experts. But OPM's light-metal bigwigs, without having committed themselves either way, frown on alunite, want Olin Corp. to use bauxite instead...
...days ago, in a meet at Leavenworth, Wash., he soared 273 ft., longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill, constructed for jumps no longer than...