Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyer Greyhound (1,335 tons, 4-7-in. guns) flicked on a searchlight. By great good luck the glare squarely silhouetted the third ship in the Italian line, the cruiser Fiume (10,000 tons, 8-inchers).- At this exceedingly close range, Warspite, whose heavy batteries had been brought to readiness, spoke up with a broadside of 15-inchers. The whole broadside found its mark. The Fiume burst into flames from foremast funnel to sternpost. The after turret flopped right into the sea. Warspite let her have another broadside. Fiume was now afire and hopelessly crippled...
Casual, talented and loaded with Irish luck, the Crosby career is also notable for making a bum out of Horatio Alger. For in 37 years, Bing Crosby has shed a confusing new light on the problem of how to be a success. He has never studied music or voice or pounded the pavements looking for work; yet jobs kept turning up-each a little better than the last. He always falls uphill. Year after year he just sings, and people pay fortunes to hear him. Over the radio, Bing's voice is worth $7,500 for one hour...
With the loss of Eugene, Powerman Raver began to turn his interest from PUDs and Municipals to industrial customers. On that front he had better luck. The luck: defense expansion, which found BPA (unlike most private utilities) with plenty of firm power to spare. First, he got Aluminum Co. to build a new plant in Vancouver; soon he lured other new industries to the quiet Columbia Valley. BPA, thanks to its industrial clients, now has contracts (of varying length) totaling well over...
...longer needs such "informers," an unwilling partner. (If the suit succeeded, it might inspire enough 1863-model lawsuits to clutter Federal court dockets until 1963.) To get Thurman Arnold's records, Marcus threatened to subpoena everybody in the Justice Department. But once the case went to trial, his luck picked up. On the witness stand he placed Robert Carrnack, manager of the contractors' association for twelve years. Carmack, himself a defendant, amazed his fellows by waiving his right to refuse to testify. Instead, for three long weeks he told the whole sorry story of how the association...
...this was a counsel of perfection. So fast is hockey that players have to make their snap decisions while spurting 30 ft. a second. Fans have all they can do to follow the zigzagging black puck. Nevertheless, as all hockey players know, most goals are the result not of luck or individual brilliance but of teamwork and well-timed, long-rehearsed plays...