Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manners. In San Francisco, a harried bus driver, cracking under the wartime rush of trade, refused to let his passengers off till they said, "Please." Inflated with success, he then tried to make them say, "Pretty please." They called a policeman...
...Board lurched successfully through the minefield of the week, voting to reject demands for a general wage increase for 220,000 workers in eight West Coast aircraft plants. But the margin of success was narrow (the vote was 7-to-5). Thus far the Board had not jettisoned its heavy cargo, the wage-raise yardstick (15% increases to cover the rise in living costs to May 1942), but all around the angry waters of inflation were lashed ever higher by labor's big winds...
...potency of the charm and mind of the Madame had already made her mission a tremendous personal success. If her slight, hard-driven body could keep up with her iron will, the tour might become as dramatic a personal triumph as Hero Lindbergh's 1927 tour, Candidate Wendell Willkie's 1940 train ride...
...experiment is a success, it may be that private owners will follow the example set by the Housing Office and convert unoccupied buildings into quarters for the families of the trainees...
Upon completion of his seminary studies Chaplain Keller immediately entered the active ministry with great success until 1934 at which time he was commissioned at 1st Lt. Chaplain in the Reserves and assigned to duty with the C. C. C. This tour of duty lasted until 1942 when he was called to active duty with the Army and sent to the Chaplain School at Ft. Ben Harrison, Ind., as a student. At the completion of the course Chaplain Keller was sent to the 85th Division at Camp Shelby. In a very short time his influence was felt through the Division...