Word: sickest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More to Munch On. What intrigued the aviation industry was why the nation's healthiest airline (United is one of the most efficient in the business) was willing to take over the sickest. Patterson inherits from Capital the two problems that brought it low: the debt to Vickers, and an inefficient route structure. Patter son intends to clear up both problems. He has already got Vickers' agreement to take back 15 turboprop Viscounts bought on credit by Capital, and to accept United common stock as full payment on Capital's debt. Vickers may lose as much...
...Sick, Sickest; Dead...
What have you done! I casually mentioned on the air the other day that TIME had referred to Ray Peterson's recording of Tell Laura I Love Her as one of the sickest of the current crop of sick songs. Since that moment, I have been swamped with irate letters and postcards, and threatening phone calls. I have been commissioned by the teenagers and the adults of Richmond, Ashland, Highland Springs, and surrounding towns to tell TIME to drop dead...
Tell Laura I Love Her (Ray Peterson; RCA Victor). The newest and by all odds the sickest of the sick teen-age songs describes a young driver who enters a stock-car race to get money for a wedding ring and. as he is slowly dying in flames, warbles: "Tell Laura I love her/Tell Laura I need her/Tell Laura not to cry/My love for her will never die." With Singer Peterson bleating expressively through his tears, the record looks uncomfortably like a top seller...