Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Electric Co.'s President Charles E. Wilson also moved fast. He trimmed an estimated $40 million a year, at present volume, off the retail prices of his products, and put out a new 10-in.-screen table model television set at $239 (compared with $325 for G.E.'s cheapest old model in the same size). Willys-Overland's President James D. Mooney found that he, too, could trim prices. He cut $25 to $270 off his Jeeps, trucks and Jeepsters...
...vacation was doing wonders for the President, said White House Physician Graham. After the first week of it, Harry Truman was tan, fit and relaxed. His weight was at a perfect 176 Ibs. He was in fighting trim, and judging by the week's news in the Senate, he would need...
...Trim Mrs. Ida Saks said that the state police must be called in to probe the "foul situation." If the "city government does not clean up ... the women can and will, with God's help." A righteous cheer rose...
...trim-looking little Armenian, Mikoyan is an exception to the run of humorless Bolsheviks. He is happy-go-lucky, and he can tell a story. He likes to hum a tune, dance, drink. (He promised the Soviet people he would produce a good beer...
Another Think Coming. Trim and confident, Mr. Truman stood up. Harry Vaughan, he said, had been his friend since they were soldiers together at Fort Sill in 1917. Everybody in the room knew that he loved wisecracking Harry Vaughan, and that he despised Drew Pearson, whom he once called a liar.† Once, Pearson wrote some critical remarks about Mrs. Truman and Margaret; the President never forgave...