Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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United's President William A. ("Pat") Patterson was mad because CAB had turned down United's request to fly a cut-off route between Los Angeles and Denver on United's New York to San Francisco main line. Instead, CAB had given the permit to smaller Western Air Lines. As an estimated 50,000 transcontinental passengers a year will fly over the route, many of them on sleeper planes, this might mean that they would be routed out of bed in the middle of the night to change planes. To avert this, CAB suggested that Western...
George Abbott lends his doft directorial touch to striking music by Leonard Hernstein and tingling choreography by Jerome Robbins, in this happy musical comedy about three sailors on a 24-hour leave in New York. "On the Town" dashes dizzily through two acts of mad-cap exuberance with acattered moments of wonderful originality...
Said a New Delhi newspaper: "You can belabor an elephant and he will not resent it, but a small irritant under one toenail may drive him mad...
...Mad Dog, Madison, is quite proud of the way he fixed his boys up with dates for the dance. Even his side kick Tex Lifschutz (or some such similar spelling) is proud of "the Dog." Now if he'd just fix Dante up we'd be happy...
Promptly, WLB set up machinery for immediate hearing of the strikers' grievances-a step it had refused to take as long as the strike lasted. And the U.S., settling back with a sigh of relief, reflected that the Good Girl had had a good case and got mad about it. Now she was temporarily mollified-but she might get mad again...