Word: supplant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cargo planes have long been a Hughes dream; in one of his rare public speeches, after his round-the-world flight, he predicted that airplanes would some day supplant ocean liners, said that the aircraft industry's future was "beyond the scope of the most fantastic imagination." Now that Imaginer Hughes and Imaginer Kaiser are teamed up, Americans may possibly see some fantastic results...
...store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME, Feb. 2) as the Voice of Ford...
...results. He had picked his men with care and an eye to their ability on instruments. He had flown the line himself and had had the daylights shaken out of him. Now he was ironing out operational procedures, shaking the last kinks out of the line that must supplant the last Burma road and then step up deliveries beyond any maximum that the trucks could have reached. But that time is not yet. Unless a great many more planes are put on the ferry hop China will continue to be virtually cut off from all U.S. supplies and help...
Hedda's triumph was a triumph for gossip over news. On June 1 her column will supplant that of the New York Daily News's John Chapman. During his two years in Hollywood he stuck to news, not gossip, "tried to report on the making of movies and let it go at that." In the end, instead of letting the gossip go, Chapman's column...
Harold Tine, who has been outstanding in practice all week, will probably break into the lineup at point, with Johnny Moot moving up to supplant George Blanchard at first defense. Ed Rothschild just came out for the team, and will probably relieve Carl Sullivan at center for part of the game, although he will not start...