Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...output of British industries was up 12% over 1947, although the number of workers had increased only 2%. This meant that the individual British worker worked harder and more efficiently. The most striking success was achieved by Britain's steel industry, still free-enterprising, which produced nearly 15 million ingot tons, substantially bettering the target set by government planners the year before. This was more steel than Britain had ever produced in any one year...
...assembled villagers Dautry said: under a law of 1810 all subsoil wealth belongs to the state. Therefore no individual would gain from radioactive hectares. At the maximum the local uranium fields would need less than 50 workers. Therefore even a new hotel or restaurant might not be assured of success...
Manhattan's ritzy Ritz Tower Hotel went to court to persuade Actress Ruth Chatterton, 55, to stop cooking in her three-room suite. The neighbors were complaining of "powerful odors," and the management had tried without success to deodorize the halls. An attorney for the stage & screen actress who once starred in Broadway's Come Out of the Kitchen (1916), said that she was "very much annoyed" and would move...
...that Pan Am's expenses and accident rate ran too high and that it sometimes gave its own cargoes priority over theirs. But a report by MATS, the combined Army-Navy transport services, this month summed up: "The importance of P.A.A. bases established before the war to the success of the South Atlantic ferrying and transport route cannot be overestimated...
...Mary Britton Miller took stock. She had written five volumes of poems and a rather good novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, a story of a deep attachment between twins. Yet Mary Miller had never produced a sound critical success, had never come close to authoring a bestseller. Was she, after all, just another New England spinster with literary inclinations...