Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee, announced last night that virtually all of the pledges were from Section 35, but could not explain this phenomenon. Freezing weather kept the total number of pledges down, said Ellison, but financially the sale nearly doubled the Princeton-game mark of $7686 and must be regarded as a success...
...other employes, who keep the same hectic hours and share the profits. Says Rockford's local WPB director: "They're doing a swell job. I don't think they knew what they were getting into when they started, but they had the nerve to make a success...
Hitler had one concrete assurance: Germany would fight the war to "unmitigated success" without the "slightest thought of compromise." But in his assurance he dropped a few words that may have sent a cold chill down the spines of the German people, who remember well and bitterly the end of the last war-when German generals appealed for peace while the Kaiser abandoned Germany to her fate. Said Hitler: "This Army is becoming more and more National-Socialist. . . . More and more differences are being eliminated. . . . In me [our enemies] have an adversary who does not even think of capitulation...
Ginger Rogers throws her size, hairdo, and makeup about quite indiscriminately in her latest movie success, "The Major and the Minor." It is her really major coming-out since her Academy Award, and although the plot will prevent any such reward this time, her acting and a set of fast-moving lines even tops her earlier performances...
This plan has been tried in other sections of the country with considerable success...