Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think of them chiefly as power plants for guided missiles, those "uninhabited aircraft" with which warring continents might blast one another to rubble from different sides of the earth. Super-enthusiasts think they may have a peacetime future also. A speed-hungry traveler, ramjet propelled at Mach 3, may start from New York at noon and flying west would see the sun sink rapidly in the east. He'd be in Honolulu in time for breakfast the same...
...Sunday supplements blanket U.S. newsstands and front porches every week. But the blanket is full of holes; for small dailies and weeklies there is no mass-produced American Weekly, This Week or Parade. Last week a new supplement got ready to cover these journalistic bare spots. Nowadays, which will start in the fall, has already signed up 305 Midwest papers with a total circulation...
...some Roman Catholic bishops, Washington, D.C. seemed like a hotbed of sin and political skulduggery-no fit place to start a school for priests. But when Pope Leo XIII polled the whole U.S. hierarchy to find out where to build a Catholic University of America, wicked Washington won in a walk...
...make up for increases in pay and materials (up $80 to $1,160 on a Stylemaster Chevrolet business coupé; up $119 to $1,685 on a Buick Special 4-door sedan). And Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller said that other carmakers would have to start figuring new retail price increases as a result of the steel boost. Said Keller: "When our costs go up, prices have to follow." Automobile men guessed that the price rises would average over...
...trade during 30 years in Wall Street. Born in New York, the third of seven children, Charlie Allen quit school at 15 to become a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, worked as clerk in a Wall Street house. When he was 19, he knew enough to start his own business as an over-the-counter dealer in unlisted securities. When his brothers Herbert, now 40, and Harold, now 37, had served their apprenticeships in the Street they joined him in his growing business...