Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success with finding multiple clovers has nothing to do with wonderful eyesight or anything like that. It's just keeping everlastingly...
...year, is more typical of the industry than Anheuser-Busch, Pabst or Schlitz. Pfeiffer's president is William George Breitmeyer, nephew of the German brewmaster who founded the company. Shy and laconic at his desk but jovial away from it, Brewer Breitmeyer has a simple explanation for his own success: "I have only one hobby. I collect friends." An aid in this hobby is his stock of old German drinking songs, inherited from his uncle...
...young man was Howard Hughes, 30-year-old bachelor, nephew of Author Rupert Hughes. A pilot since he was 14, this ultra-rich young oilman and cinema producer first burst over the horizon of national attention when he produced Hell's Angels (TIME, June 9, 1930). Other cinema successes followed, but by 1932 Director Hughes had tired of Hollywood, turned back to aviation as a prime interest. Hiding under a pseudonym, he got a job as transport pilot for American Airways, managed to make one cross-country flight before officials discovered his identity. Next Pilot Hughes took to developing...
...find that merchants really are optimistic; they think the turn has come and are advertising more. This is particularly fortunate for the candidate since his success depends a great deal on his ability in bringing in ads. That is the most important of the three divisions of a candidate's work. The second, and a very vital one, is the collection of bills. This represents some hard work but there is a thrill when you are successful with an account that has repeatedly repelled attempts at collection. A few routine jobs at the office make up the third part...
This purpose is accomplished with sufficient success to satisfy those who are content with a gentleman's knowledge of the subject, and the volumes are also handy as ready references for those quotes which make theses sound erudite. The introductions have been written carefully and cover, however briefly, all the biographical and psychological background necessary to understand the work of the authors...