Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turks' reaction to Teheran was the strongest testimony to the success of that conference. They were at last convinced that Britain and the U.S. would not split with Russia, leave a helpless, empty-handed Turkey in the middle. When President Roosevelt sent five planes to Adana to bring Inönü and his party to Cairo, the Turks were not exactly happy, but they were ready...
...something new was to make Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest two of the five greatest screen hits ever manufactured. It was to explain every success that the young actress, whose name was Greer Garson, has had since. It was slowly to crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career...
...Best-Sellers. No. 1 publishing success of the year was a political book-Wendell Willkie's One World ($1). The Republican candidate's record of his trip around the world was expected to sell 150,000 copies, actually sold 1,530,000 (total sales of Gone With the Wind...
Green Thumbs. This is the man, no intellectual, without a touch of the ideologue or politician-whose life as thus recorded is almost a parodist's composite of the old-fashioned business-magazine success stories-who finally made the war-production machine in Washington work...
Strictly unrestricted: All hands agree that Company Charlie's second smoker was a huge success. There were times when it was feared the five flag might have to be hoisted when the lights kept going out, but the trouble was quickly stopped...