Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through Mr. Williams dropped a half million dollars, but he had his money's worth last year when Wedell-Williams speedsters hung up a string of records, including a transcontinental record of 10 hr. 19 min. in the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles-New-York). Last week three sleek Wedell-Williams ships were pitted against two chunky Gee Bee's at the start of the Bendix. (Also there were two women in Lockheeds, Amelia Earhart and Ruth Nichols, who straggled into Los Angeles a day or so late.) Jimmy Wedell himself was on hand to pilot...
First mate of his sleek white schooner was Son James. The rest of the crew was made up of Sons Franklin Jr. and John, five young friends. In the IPs foamy wake followed a strangely assorted flotilla: the destroyers Ellis and Bernadou: official guardians of the President's safety; the Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga carrying secret service men; the ketch Mary Alice and the powerboat Comanche, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks; the black Gloucesterman Old Glory swarming with news photographers who were never allowed to get within camerashot...
After turning their well-tailored backs upon Red Russians for 15 years, sleek U. S. State Department officials cocked wary ears last week at a breeze of rumors that Josef Stalin in the Kremlin Palace and Franklin Roosevelt in the White House will soon be on formal, friendly diplomatic terms...
...feared might wreck the Conference then and there. It must be sold adroitly to French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet or he might walk out of the Conference. Mild Mr. Hull, feeling perhaps not equal to the job, chose as his Delegation's super salesmen James Middleton Cox and sleek, persuasive Manhattan banker-expert James P. Warburg. Salesmen Cox & Warburg took the Frenchman into an inner committee room, M. Bonnet protesting that since President Roosevelt was known to oppose dollar stabilization "the alternative is an orgy of inflation and the Conference might as well adjourn!" The door was closed, locked...
...Delegation stragglers who came by the faster S. S. Olympic were led by Vice-Chief Delegate James Middleton Cox, shrewd, rich Ohio publisher who brought with him the U. S.'s fiscal big guns: sleek Governor George Leslie Harrison of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, owlish U. S. Treasury Adviser Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague (recently Adviser to the Bank of England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury...