Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actress Madeleine Carroll, 43 (Goodbye, My Fancy), was ready to go back to Paris to talk things over with third husband Henri Lavorel. "I hope for a settlement of our problems," she confided to a Manhattan gossip columnist, "but I want to reserve judgment until...
...managed to duck matrimony through a full decade as Hollywood's "Most Eligible Bachelor," finally announced his engagement to Divorcee Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, mother of two and onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean...
...world's commercial airplane business is now almost wholly dominated by U.S. manufacturers, but the 'British hope soon to get their share. Last week Vickers-Armstrong showed off its Viscount 700, in most respects a conventional-looking craft. The novelty was the four engines. They carried ordinary propellers on their noses, but instead of being blunt and thick, the Viscount's engines stuck out ahead of the wing like half-cigars (see cut). On these slender "turboprop" engines Britain is pinning her commercial airplane hopes...
Vickers does not hope to deliver Viscount 7005 before 1952, but there seems to be no great need for hurry. U.S. manufacturers have given comparatively little attention to the turboprop. Their attitude has been that commercial airliners will jump directly from piston engines to turbojets, but not soon. The problems of the 600 m.p.h. jet airliner are far more difficult than those of the intermediate airplane driven by turboprops...
Feelers were also sent to the Cumberland Presbyterians (75,000 members), the Reformed Church in America (200,000), and the 225,000 United Presbyterians. Said 54-year-old Moderator Barbour: "It is my hope and prayer [that] one great Presbyterian Church will be created...