Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical gentlemen who tell us that our country has neither the background nor the aptitude that makes for success in maritime affairs, I have little sympathy. . . . The United States of America has a maritime tradition...
...Camps Inc. Its findings: Clarence Young Rose is a big handsome 51-year-old bachelor from Atlanta. His friends call him a "terrific salesman." It was in that role, nine years ago, that Mr. Rose organized his first traveling educational institution, and by 1938 it was something of a success. If not typical, that year's junket was at least interesting. Into ten Chevrolet trucks piled 198 youngsters, 33 camp counsellors, a great deal of baggage, a doctor and a trained nurse. In Promoter Rose's sock was $9,000 (of which he appropriated $1,100) contributed...
When wind of this success reached Manhattan Publishers Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., they decided to get the U. S. publication rights, issued the Beer Barrel Polka as a song with words specially written by Lyric-writer Lew Brown...
...mail fraud case not connected with Phoenix), favors another technique. It often looks up an anemic corporation, gives it a financial blood transfusion and an infusion of hardheaded management and takes its fee in the form of options on shares that prove valuable if the treatment is a success...
Good-looking, poker-faced Helen Wills Moody, eight times women's singles champion, having tried her hand at tennis (with some success), at art (with somewhat less), finally decided to try it at a detective story.* Her heroine: Betty Dwight, good-looking, poker-faced, five-times women's singles champion, who faces Mexican Challenger Marie Azarin, at Wimbledon, only to have Senorita Azarin drop dead on the court. Significance: in Mrs. Moody's hand the racket is mightier than...