Word: pocketer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harassed Hu Flung Huey launched into one of his periodic Fritts of confidence yesterday. UnCowened by tales of terrible Tufts, he Fishered in his pocket and produced a pleasant prediction: "Have Hartman!" he protested when one of his satellites said he Feldmanly had the better team, "Swegan win spite Tufts Fostering a Gale. When the crowd Rohrs, we'll Pierce pay dirt and hold our Owens. But Dewy lost Irwin, we'll massacre the Manleymen. We'll Fabergast them, we'll Flynnish them. Triumph will Tennant this town tonight and two Beers says twill...
...Through the Jap code (which the U.S. had in its pocket before Pearl Harbor), President Franklin Roosevelt and the Washington high command knew, hours before the attack, that Japan was breaking off negotiations, that this meant a surprise attack somewhere in the Pacific...
Publisher Johnson started the Negro Digest-three years ago with the help of a white executive editor, Ben Burns, 31, who has the same title on Ebony, Negro Digest rode the pocket magazines' popularity wave to a 110,000 circulation, gave Publisher Johnson enough profits to start Ebony...
...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...
...merging a number of auto companies several years before. What if G.M. should decide to make its own bearings? So when Billy Durant offered to buy Hyatt, Sloan jumped at the chance, sold out to Billy Durant for $13,500,000. At 41, with $5,000,000 in his pocket, he might have retired. Not Mr. Sloan. He stepped in as vice president of another Durant creation, United Motors Corp. When Durant merged U.M. with G.M., Sloan became a G.M. vice president...