Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Service Resumed. The first passenger vessel from the U.S. since early 1942 nosed its way between the coral reefs that line the channel into Hamilton, Bermuda. She was the Furness, Withy & Cox, Ltd.'s trim, flag-bedecked, 3,500-ton Fort Townsend, carrying 31 passengers and 830 tons of cargo...
...fans were on hand. One of the biggest purses ($51,046.96) in the 20 years of the Hambletonian (14 times at Goshen) was at stake. A record 19 entries were in the field. But everyone knew that 18 of them scarcely had a chance against Titan, the trim cherry bay colt with the proud Hanover name, who trotted a record-breaking two-minute mile as a two-year-old last year. His driver was a champ too: gum-chewing Brooklyn-bred Harry Pownall, who at 42 is a youngster among sulky drivers...
Many a farmer, impressed by the jeep's war record, has wanted to own one-without thinking twice. Well aware of this eager market, publicity-wise Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., the principal jeep-maker, carefully built its trim, grim little wagon into what it thought would be a low-cost, all-purpose farm vehicle of the future. But Willys did not talk about price; the OPA had to be consulted...
...Colorado's strike-bloodied coalfields in 1927 came trim, zealous Josephine Roche, Vassar-trained daughter of reactionary Financier John J. Roche, and heir to his minority holdings in the $10,000,000 Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. Behind her lay 17 years of hard social work. Ahead lay her big chance to "fight for tremendous things," i.e., to put her long-pent labor-relations theories to a practical test. Last week the test was close...
Married. Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 27, trim, toothy radio & cinema singer; and Hyatt Robert Dehn, 34, head of Los Angeles' Defense Housing Corp.; she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...