Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of three spectacular withdrawals, his competitors were less formidable than they were in last year's Bendix Race when Pilot Howard flew Mister Mulligan to victory only 24 seconds ahead of Colonel Roscoe Turner. Fortnight ago, Colonel Turner cracked up on the way East for the race, was hospitalized with minor hurts. Flyer S. J. Wittman also had to quit on the way East when his plane caught fire at Cheyenne. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, designer of the world's fastest pursuit ship, was refused permission by the Army to fly it in the Bendix Race...
...tradition Labor Day marks the end of the summer doldrums for Industry, the beginning of the autumn upswing and better business. The summer of 1936 was not so commercially spectacular as the summer of 1933, when Industry was racing the approaching Blue Eagle and the threat of inflation, and the imminence of Repeal was intoxicating the stockmarket (TIME, July 21, 1933). Nevertheless, this week as Labor Day came & went, most U. S. businessmen concluded that the summer of 1936 had been good for trade, that autumn should, by experience, be even better. Indices of a smiling summer...
That, plus the facts that he is spectacular, has a national reputation and can rouse a rabble along with the best of them, made next week's election of solemn interest both to the New Deal and the nation...
Next day Mrs. Spencer indulged in a spectacular reversal of form. Hurrying to La Porte to try to annul the marriage, Mrs. Spencer announced that she now thought her 200-lb. son-in-law had traded on her daughter's maternal instincts. Said Mrs. Spencer: "It was just on account of his being sickly and weak that Baby married him, I know. She is so kind-hearted and sympathetic." Gist of Mrs. Spencer's complaint soon proved to be that she did not have a high regard for the social standing of young Wright's parents...
...year will pump commercial entertainment through the 26,000,000 loudspeakers of the land. This opulent wedding of Big Business and Show Business will thus beget a lively brood of ck ,vns and crooners, ingenues and instrumentalists, mimes and maestros who serve as U. S. Industry's most spectacular sales crew. It had taken a summer of wangling and finegling between talent agents, time salesmen, admen and sponsors to line up the 1936-37 radio'season, which by last week manifested the following high spots...