Word: shoestringer
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The Ancelots are lower down in the social scale, but just as disorganized. Papa Ancelot, a shoestring operator in the stock market, rails at his giddy daughters for going around with gigolos. But the daughters have found that they can distract Papa from his tirades by pushing him into the...
Blind & Deaf. The heart of CAB's case against the non-skeds is that they operate just like scheduled airlines without the legal authorization and without the responsibilities. Most of the non-skeds got their start by buying surplus war transports, are still largely shoestring operations. Since they don...
Hard-driving Texan Slick was not merely talking Texas-style. Last week, he reported that in 1950 his all-freight airline finally got over the hump, had a $506,608 profit after taxes. It was the first year Slick had been out of the red since he and his fellow...
A quickie is a movie financed on a shoestring and shot almost as fast as the cameras can turn. No one in Hollywood grinds out quickies at a greater pace or profit than 41-year-old Robert Lippert, who, in his 6 years as a producer, has made 60 pictures...
Harry Truman had the weight of facts and logic on his side. Politicians had outdone themselves carving out weirdly shaped districts designed to increase their power at the expense of their opponents. Illinois had "saddlebag" and "beltline" districts; Mississippi had a "shoestring" district, 40 miles wide and 600 miles long...