Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest. The last of the grand hotels grossed $16,500,000 last year, more than any hotel ever took in anywhere, and in spite of stiff costs it began to make a little profit. Service began to slip a bit, but terrapin and Irish golden plover was still on the menu. Anyway, Boomer had found that guests now paid more attention to who was in the floor show than to what was on the menu...
Hearst's afternoon daily, the Herald & Express, has had a high turnover in city editors. One reason is the managing editor, crusty, hard-riding John B. T. Campbell, who used to be city editor himself and still acts like one; he is a fast man with the pink slip. Managing Editor Campbell has been firing city editors at the rate of two a year; in the process he virtually reduced the job to schedule-shuffling while he bossed the show from a city-room desk. What Campbell needed was somebody who could put up with him, and if need...
...anybody ever tell you how most instructive your Letters Dept. really is? . . . Errors that slip by your editors are not noticed by the ordinary person; it takes experts, which goes to show that top people in every field are reading TIME and are cooperating in writing to you-resulting in welcome information for other readers...
...race driver himself, Designer Moore picked his two drivers carefully: he knew that one slip on race day would twist a Moore car into junk. His choices: 1) rabbit-faced, mustached Mauri Rose, a speedway veteran; 2) Bill Holland, a dirt-track expert who had never driven in Indianapolis' famed...
Miss Roche signed a contract with the union, the first in Colorado. But the shaky company, heavily over-capitalized by her father, began to slip when natural gas came into Colorado, went bankrupt in 1944 (TIME, Aug. 6, 1945). When liquidation is completed, in five or six years, Lewmurken, which owns 23% of the company, may have received as much as $300,000 in all. But the U.M.W. is shedding no tears over its loss. It was richly repaid in the unionization of all Colorado coal mines...