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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frohock indicated that the department will be watching closely the success of the new concentrated German half course to be given in January of next year. If the course is successful, the same kind of thing may be tried in the Romance Languages, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poggioli Will Present New Dante Course | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

Despite Castro's lack of success, however, Batista is in an unenviable position. Strongmen who die in bed usually do so in exile. If he is smart, Batista would like very much to retire again as he did in 1944; he is once again rich. He is not running in the general election scheduled for November 30, and the Batista-supported candidate--Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero--has been campaigning as a "great compromiser," promising political amnesty for rebels. Rivero may be sincere; if he is, Castro and his men are wasting their time, for Batista will be giving constitutional...

Author: By Garcia Y Vega, | Title: Requiem for a Strongman | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...Pabst Corp., and Fred Pabst, son of the founder, later became chairman. Perlstein led the company through its period of greatest growth and profitmaking, saw it reach its biggest year in 1949 with a sales peak of $168,994,000. But Perlstein soon found himself hurt by his own success. Hit hard by the steadily flattening beer market, Pabst sales slid steadily. To make matters worse, Perlstein drew the wrath of the Pabst family for opposing their attempts to get more family members into the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: K.O. at Pabst | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Hollywood sale ($500,000 plus 25% of the profits), the book is as good a property as the oil wells Wilson bought with his earnings from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. There is a touch of poetic justice about Sloan Wilson's success, for he used to be far more fascinated by business than by the writing game, once dreamed of making his fortune in soybeans. (He was born into a Connecticut literary family, and his financial fancies, he thinks, were a kind of "adolescent rebellion in reverse.") Now a dedicated writer. Wilson is nevertheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Typewriter Tycoon | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...activites should be undertaken by the Council unless it feels they have a "good possibility of success," the Committee advised...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: Committee to Seek Council Enlargement | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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