Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years. His fame as the fearless young prosecutor was secure: millions had read of him as the very model of the modern District Attorney marshaling the forces of right against the hordes of evil. This year they learned more of the details of his rapid success story, from small-town editor's son to governor of the biggest state...
Tomorrow the Skipper's pet party-the Navy Relief Dance, will be held in Potter Auditorium. According to Mrs. Inglis, the girls will be something special and since the affair has always been a success lets all continue the good work and make the dance something special. It's a worthy cause, for the motto of the Navy Relief Society is, "The Navy Takes Care...
When a movie is based on an unoriginal idea and an overabundance of emotion, it takes a truly professional touch to keep matters from getting trite. Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Hilton, the young wife of the Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
...recklessness, carelessness and plain dumb flying-enemies against which the A.A.F. Office of Flying Safely has waged a long, persistent campaign, probing crackups, preaching sermons, dinning lessons. This is wastage which the A.A.F. has tried to cut down - even by court-martialing of fenders against prudence - and with some success. High as it was, the accident rate in August 1944 was less than half what it was in the confused December of 1941. Considering the wartime speedup, plus the added toughness of training, it was probably not notably out of scale with the peacetime accident rate for military flying training...
Elton Ellison, 20, of Rails, Tex. has made the furrows of a farm look like a highway to business success. The Future Farmers of America, meeting in their Kansas City convention this week, gave young Ellison the title of "Star Farmer of America" and $500 prize money. For Farmer Ellison, recently inducted into the Army, this prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid...