Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many Plans. After four years and according to plan, Luce took over as editor and Hadden shifted to business manager. There, thanks to Luce and Circulation Manager (now president) RoyLarsen, he found things in such good shape that he was bored. As one outlet for his restless energy, Hadden started Tide (later sold), partly, says Busch, for the purpose of heckling TIME. By the late '20s TIME (circulation: 200,000) was so profitable that the partners could plan further expansion. Luce had advanced the idea for FORTUNE, and in his little notebook Hadden had jotted down ideas...
Maggie Porter was in high good humor; as vice president of Porter Paint she had helped push its sales over $2,000,000 last year, had boosted her 1949 volume 33% over the same period last year. "Sure," says she, "I use my friends to get business. But then you have to deliver. I see to it that...
...chances for profit looked good. In three years, air freight has grown from virtually nothing to more than 115 million ton-miles last year. The potential amount of U.S. air freight, said CAB last week, is more than one billion ton-miles per year, or more than eight times as much as all airlines are now hauling. The cargo lines had promised they would develop the business if given the chance. Now it was up to them to make good...
...experts, it turned out to be a 28-in. disc of plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...
...Monty had become an ace pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In the same year, as the result of a hunting accident, he lost his right leg and (so the sport world thought) all chance for a future in professional baseball. But Monty had courage as well as a good right arm. Bolstered by thousands of fan letters and an artificial leg, he fought his way back to the mound. By 1946 he had begun again as a pitcher in the Class C East Texas League* and was baseball's "most courageous athlete" of that year...