Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made the success at Moscow possible...
...forgot his lingering cold, could hardly wait to break the news. At a press conference three days before the terms of the agreement were announced, he grinned and joked, nearly popped with his happy secret, finally said: The net results of the Moscow Conference had been a tremendous success. The spirit of the whole meeting had been amazingly good. State Secretary Cordell Hull deserved a great deal of credit for that spirit, and so did the British and Russians...
Cheered by the success of The Naked Genius, three other frights wobbled hopefully to Broadway last week. SLIGHTLY MARRIED (by Aleen Leslie) was the fourth obstetrical farce in recent months, let out one frightened postnatal wail, expired. VICTORY BELLES (by Alice Gerstenberg), a free-for-all about the husband shortage, was likely to remain unchallenged as the worst show of the season. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE (by Roy Walling) told how a down-in-the-mouth writer (Eddie Dowling) and a poor little call girl gave each other the faith to begin afresh. A trite story tritely told, it had moments...
...this personal consideration of the individual which has changed the old Army game of shuffling people like playing cards-face down. Said he: "We took him out of civilian life when his future was brightest . . . when he returns, we want his outlook and his chances for success to be just as brilliant." In the approach and scope of the project, military men see more than a thoughtful scheme for fitting Air Forces men and jobs smoothly together. They see what may be a preview of demobilization. If the Redistribution Center can ease men into new military jobs they are glad...
...real reason. Aircraft makers had been scoffingly certain that the tremendous Kaiser-Hughes plane would be a flop. (Where will he get the plant? The men? The engineers? The materials? Besides, the U.S. doesn't need it.) Now, said Mr. Kaiser, they were worried lest it be a success. They feared, with good reason, said he, that it would put Shipbuilder Kaiser years ahead in the race for a postwar plane...