Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three folksy, saccharine radio programs he conducts over Hollywood's KFWB, Hal Styles promptly made the most of this topflight support. He plastered Hollywood with 60 billboards proclaiming, "Senator Truman says: 'I'm for Styles...
Mozart: Quartet in E Flat Major (K. 428) (Busch Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides). A slightly heavy but well-tooled performance of a topflight Mozart item. Recording: excellent...
...Navy long ago took over swank establishments like Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Hotel for bluejackets returned from combat. About 5,000 Army airmen rest each month at topflight resort hotels in the U.S. Finally, last week some of the same kind of luxury was dished up for G.I. Joe himself...
...president of the Great Northern Railway. Most of Railroader Gavin's letters are notably brief, but this one was to be a little longer than usual. It was an invitation for competitive bids on $100 million 3½% refunding bonds of the Great Northern-the largest issue of topflight railroad bonds to come to market since 1900. The sale must be completed...
Russian explanations were lame: busy with the immediate necessities of war and reconstructing devastated areas, the country is short of topflight men who have been thinking about postwar organization; Ambassador Gromyko is an able young man ("Why, he served as an UNRRA delegate in Atlantic City!"). A more likely explanation: Russia's topflight diplomats were being held at home to work out the Polish problem. And some State Department men even concluded that the Soviet Union attached little importance to the Dumbarton Oaks discussion anyhow...