Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa Anita, Helbush Farms' trim chestnut colt Poona II broke into an early lead, won the mile-and-a-sixteenth San Fernando Stakes by better than four lengths and in the process set a world record for the distance. Time...
...circulation is 8% off its peak, and its ad linage last year was down 17%. The Journal's screaming red headlines and crusading zeal once appealed to New York's immigrant population, but this formula no longer works so well. Though it has cut its staff to trim expenses and runs giveaway contests (Cashword Puzzles, Daily Double Racing Game, Lucky Safety Cards) to boost circulation, the Journal contributed to the Hearst chain's loss of $1,266,500 in the first nine months of 1954, the biggest deficit in the chain's history...
Perlman poked into every corner of the road trying to trim the "belly fat." For example, he walked into a shop in Cleveland unannounced one evening at 9:30 p.m., found "not a man working. They were all in the locker room, although they don't go off work until 11." He shut down the shop. With better use of diesels, he found that he could retire 381 less efficient steam locomotives, leaving only...
...until F.D.R. came along, of course," Lamb now claims to be a political independent, campaigned for Dewey in '48 and Stevenson in '52. In his home town, the independent Toledo Blade has been grudgingly inclined to side with him: "Mr. Lamb has always seemed to us to trim his sails to suit his own advantage . . . And we will grant that one has to get up very early in the morning to get the better of him in anything. But a Communist? Bunk!" Lamb has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who can prove he was directly...
Into a large, cluttered Detroit studio one day 18 months ago strode a trim, lean man with the suave good looks of an ambassador and the cheery smile of a salesman. Around the room were barrels of clay and modeling tools; on the walls were blueprints of cars yet to be born. Only a handful of people were allowed in the room; few even knew its location. On a platform in the center stood the reason for the tight security. There for inspection by Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, president of General Motors Corp., was the topmost secret of the greatest...