Word: gleams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Juan Terry Trippe got Pan American Airways into the air in 1927 he knew every wrinkle in its flying equipment (a lone trimotored Fokker), every part in his stockroom, every wavelet in the go-mile mail route between Key West and Havana. In his eyes was the dreamy gleam of the empire builder, behind his disarming smile a grim determination...
...takes more than a gleam in a publisher's eye to create a new Metropolitan newspaper. Since 1895 only three big dailies have been born in Manhattan. All three were tabloid children of rich men, who could afford to spend millions nursing them to maturity. One (Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic) died a-weaning. Two survive: Joseph Medill Patterson's Daily News, William Randolph Hearst's Daily Mirror...
Most distinctive hallmark of the streamline-builders is the sleek, shiny gleam of Budd trains. Only Budds are made of stainless steel and only Budds are likely to be, as long as the Philadelphia plant keeps a tight hold on its "Shotweld" process for welding stainless sheets together. Invented by Budd's Chief Engineer Colonel Earl James Wilson Ragsdale, onetime professional Army officer, the "Shotweld" machine is a foolproof, delicately balanced electrical device that can be operated by unskilled labor. In less than the winking of an eye (1/20 of a second) it sends a stabbing electric current through...