Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sulphur Co. has struck the biggest sulphur bed discovered in the past 20 years. From these new deposits at Garden Island Bay, La. (see map), Freeport expects to mine 500,000 tons of brimstone (pure sulphur) a year by 1953. The effect of this announcement last week was electric. Overnight, Freeport's stock shot up as much as 19 points, to 120, the highest price in the company's history...
...with his free meals, free massages, free Florida vacations for his "associates" (employees) and the $39,000 bonus he paid his secretary for "just working hard." On a $100,-ooo stake and $3,400,000 in Government loans, he rang up peak sales of $90 million in 1943 and overnight became the nation's largest maker of airplane starters and automatic pilots...
...singers withdrew the suit when Krick, an affable and convincing talker, assured them that it probably wouldn't rain anyhow. (Krick insists that he is only a sort of meteorological dairy hand who can only milk, not create, clouds.) But the incident dramatized the fact that Krick, almost overnight, has become one of the West's most controversial characters and that for better or for worse, rainmaking has come to stay...
...serve out the last four of their eight years' service. In full-strength units, the ready reserves would drill once a week, go to summer camp two weeks a year. They would be subdivided into "early" and and "late" units, the earlies able to spring into action almost overnight, the lates within a few months. Units would have 50% of their equipment on hand, pick up the rest in packaged loads at predesignated mobilization points...
Caught in a Dream. Something more than his overnight success and riches seems to bind Lanza to Hollywood. Caught in the daydream of a small boy, he is not ready to take up the role of the mature artist, the man from whom people have come to accept-and expect-a brilliant performance. It is easier to think of himself as a prodigy borne on the shoulders of the fans; every time he opens his mouth, he wants someone to be hearing his voice incredulously for the first fracturing time...