Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country, hitherto a TACA demesne. Pan Am immediately formed Aerovias de Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek Pan Am Douglas DC25, will begin competing with TACA's rebuilt, cratish "Tin Geese" (trimotored Fords...
Lloyd's insurance underwriters set the prime example of "Big Business as usual" last week. The 200 sleek, well-dressed underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...
...girl can have a career and still be a good wife-but mostly because through her more of the milk of human kindness is available in all quarters than ever before," New York World's Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson bestowed a citation for distinguished service on sleek and sloe-eyed World's Fair cow Elsie...
...present both primary and secondary students are flying six days a week, the latter using sleek 220 horse power Wacos. Thirty-five hours of flying is the minimum in the primary training course and students in the secondary will build up 40 beginning with periods of an hour. Acrobatic flying will receive the greatest emphasis...
...automen were shocked last week when Mason slashed his medium-priced Nash sixes and eights as much as $159 (new prices $923 to $1,151). Arch-independent Mason also bucked the trend by yanking all the fancy work off the higher-priced Nash-giving it a sleek, custom-made appearance. The new "600" and price cuts, prophesies Mason, will boost Nash output to a record 125,000 cars this year, more than double 1940 model sales...