Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then the war finished and almost overnight everything had gone American in Europe. How did it happen? I really don't know. But there I was, walking the streets and seeing America everywhere: shops full of nylon products, American toothpaste, American combs, Kleenex, candies, everything gaily coloured and smartly wrapped up. The newsstands were full of American papers, a Sunday edition about as big as a hundred European newspapers rolled into one, gay comics put up with clothespegs, stacks of magazines, stacks of books. I looked everywhere for an English magazine and found, tucked away in a corner...
...designs, ultimately founded his own company and made his share of aviation history. In 1945, he got an order to build the first carrier-based jet fighter for the U.S. Navy, and thereby turned his small, six-year-old McDonnell Aircraft Corp. into a fast-growing big planemaker almost overnight. Last week, as he announced new expansion plans, McDonnell put his backlog at more than $200 million, the seventh biggest in the industry. And his profits for the fiscal year just ended were $2,800,000 on sales of $38.6 million, nearly a 70% profit jump in a year...
...keep presses and employees profitably busy they started Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a sort of undigested Reader's Digest of fiction of the day, bought the galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction but for its factual articles on U.S. life, that Thoreau peevishly asked: "Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers to select our reading...
...University has for several years officially disfavored the ownership of automobiles by students. Cambridge ordinances at present prohibit overnight parking on all streets...
Missing from yesterday's session was first string tailback and captain, Phil Isenberg. According to W. Henry Johnston, the H.A.A.'s outlet for athletic information, Isenberg has a cold and was to have remained overnight in Stillman infirmary...