Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another company. In the first quarter Porter's sales rose from last year's $32 million to $52 million, its profits from 51? per share to $1.30, after a merger with one of its subsidiaries. For Crane, Tom Evans hopes to turn a similar trick...
...Town and the Charles Playhouse production of it perform the difficult artistic trick of dealing with sentimental subjects without being sentimental. And the Charles Playhouse, with its Grange Hall intimacy and its large, informal stage extending out into the audience is truly an ideal setting for this most American of plays...
...Only a crash program on a "war footing" can do the trick-a program that slices through Indian love of paper-shuffling solutions and provides a "far-reaching, centralized authority with a clear line of command and execution...
...interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits), and he says very little that is original. Yet the effect is that of a good conversationalist quietly voicing some private enthusiasms over some very good, very old brandy. His trick is to talk mostly about people and not too much about his advertised subject. The novels of Germany's Goethe make an occasion to discuss a man of genius who found it hard to keep away from a pretty woman. After a lucid introduction to Hindu religion, he describes...
...every jet that rises into the U.S. skies, U.S. airlines will have to find a way to sell two or three of their piston planes. Last week a young (31), gangling (6 ft. ½ in.), onetime hedgehopper named Frederick Ayer showed how the trick can be done-with a tidy profit for himself. From his 24-room office suite in Manhattan, Fred Ayer announced the purchase of 45 Douglas DC-6s (value $30 million) from American Airlines, plus first refusal rights on the $23 million worth of DC-6s left in American's fleet...