Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jayvees also had the situation well in hand. At times the Big Red was overstroking them by 11 beats per minute, but the Crimson took an early lead and held...
...stockholders' group that was dissatisfied with the management of Chicago Great Western, succeeded in making Coalman Grant Stauffer president last fall. Stauffer made young Bill Deramus his assistant in the Great Western, whose 1,500 miles of track tap six Midwestern states. Young Bill trimmed costs so well that when Stauffer died last March, he was the logical man for the presidency. Now with freight carload-ings off 5.4% from 1948 (v. nearly a 10% average drop for all roads), Bill Deramus hopes to cut costs more by dieselizing the entire line by fall...
Tricks. Faced with slumping sales, many other manufacturers were trying similar tricks. They were well aware that the drop in buying was caused less by a lack of customers' cash than a stubborn rebellion against high prices. Though businessmen grumbled about recession, it was still the most prosperous recession the U.S. had ever had. Consumers' dollars could still be lured out for the right product at the right price...
...behemoths were not fighting over peanuts. Last week, the first week of big city sales, some 4,000 cameras were sold in the Manhattan area alone. Though Polaroid was making 10,000 cameras a month, it was forced to ration them, as well as its special film, to retail outlets. For the first time since the war, Polaroid expected to make a profit this year...
...Well Out of It. In Dunn, N.C., Defeated Candidate George W. Williams placed an ad in the local newspaper congratulating the winners and thanking those who did not vote for him in the municipal elections: he had just learned "how badly the town is in debt...