Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan. But his official position in Washington had also grown uncomfortable. He still enjoyed the Presidential favor, particularly shown in a visit to his Greenbelt satellite city (TIME, Nov. 23). However, his Resettlement Administration, with its high costs (administrative overhead 13? on the dollar) and record of questionable success, faced difficulty in getting new appropriations from Congress. In parts of the South many a no-good farmer who has been "rehabilitated" now drives along the road with his new mule, new wagon, new harness grinning down at the "leading citizen" of the community sweating in his lower...
...Navy Department bases its predictions of success for the ARD-3, which will cost about twice as much as a stationary drydock, on its experience with the ARD-1, a small experimental craft of some similar design, which it has been trying out for two years on small destroyers and submarines. When bids are opened this week for the construction of the ARD-3, shipbuilders will be preparing bids for the building of the ARD-2, a sister dock of the experimental ARD-1, which is 446 ft. long. The ARD3 is intended for use in the Pacific and will...
...Miles was mainly responsible last spring for the Club's presentation of Richard Hughes' "A Comedy of Good and Evil", which at the time critics declared the club's finest success in a decade...
...producer, Mr. Miles is known to New York audiences for "Nine Pino Street", written in collaboration with John Colton. The author of the internationally known success "Rain". Other Broadway productions of his plays include "Portrait of Gilbert" and "The Granite Lady...
...small but substantial profit that marks the year's operations. Although the few thousand dollars in black ink do not make much of a showing in comparison with the lush days of 1931 and 1932, when Harvard's football team was last riding the crest of success, nevertheless even the small surplus is an encouraging climb from the several gloomy years just past...