Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty Picture. The news was just as good in railroads, steel, aluminum, heavy manufacturing. After slim pickings in 1954, the Pennsylvania Railroad announced the best profit in ten years: President James M. Symes totaled the nine-month revenue at $690 million, with a $32 million net that was a whopping 172% better than 1954, Crucible Steel did even better in the percentage race, with nine-month sales of $172 million, a $9,000,000 profit, 434% higher than last year's poor earnings. Eastman Kodak President Albert K. Chapman showed a pretty picture to stockholders: he reported new highs...
Tense Hands & Phone Call. Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station...
...slim, tall red headed Irishman from South Boston. The previous fall he had entered the now defunct Lawrence School of Engineering at Harvard as a mature, 26 year old freshman who had spent five years with the U. S. Engineering Corps...
...week from today Connolly will celebrate his 87th birthday. His red hair has turned soft white, and his slim frame is slightly stooped and rather frail. A charley horse restricts him largely to his apartment on Brookline Street, but not his acuteness...
Word from the Voters. In Pollster George Gallup's first G.O.P. sounding since President Eisenhower became ill, Republican voters gave Nixon a slim lead for the G.O.P. presidential nomination next year. Gallup's question: "Here is a list of men who have been mentioned as possible presidential candidates in 1956 for the Republican Party. If Eisenhower is not a candidate, which one would you like to see nominated?" The top runners...