Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Wiese did not underestimate her. He well knew that Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the Journal's star contributors. Her 1937 memoirs (This Is My Story) and monthly question & answer page (If You Ask Me) had helped push the Journal to its No. 1 spot in the U.S. women's magazine field (TIME, Oct. 4). He could hardly believe his ears when Mrs. Roosevelt told him that the Journal's co-editors, Bruce and Beatrice Gould, had found fault with her latest volume of memoirs and asked her to let them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese...
...Times launched its new afternoon tabloid, the Mirror, last October, it hit the newsstands with a dull thud. Readers were baffled by its sideways front page, annoyed by its murky newsprint and cloudy color pages, and bored by its stories. By Thanksgiving Day, circulation had slumped to 71,447-well below the 100,000 guarantee to advertisers. From his thriving morning Times, Owner Norman Chandler rushed over City Editor Hugh ("Bud") Lewis to give Mirror Publisher Virgil Pinkley some help...
Canada played her card well: she announced that traffic rights at Gander would be withdrawn June 30, but let it be understood that the status quo might be maintained if the U.S. came across with some new concessions. Last week, after a fortnight's negotiations, the U.S. State Department came across. Canada got: ¶ A new Montreal-New York route for the government-owned Trans-Canada Airlines, thus letting T.C.A. tap the richest U.S. traffic center and providing the first competition for Colonial Airlines on Colonial's most lucrative route. ¶ Traffic rights at Tampa and St. Petersburg...
...that he knew how to find customers in a buyers' market. More & more men were wearing ties with fancy, outlandish patterns that clashed with old-style striped shirts. Phillips switched three of Phillips-Jones's eleven plants to full production of pastel-colored shirts which would go well with loud ties...
...many a year, the electric-power industry has proved a prime target for the Administration and the proponents of public power. Last week, as 3,000 delegates of the Edison Electric Institute gathered at their annual convention in Atlantic City, the target shot back, with a hot, well-placed barrage. One of the heaviest salvos was fired by General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, boss of the biggest U.S. electrical equipment company, and thus sensitive to attacks on "bigness." The industry, said he, was being attacked in many cases simply because...