Word: zipped
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Reese went to work with a staff of efficiency engineers, reorganized the company from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...
...worldwide air-commuting service far bigger than anything air-minded fanatics expected to see before 1950. Thus American and T.W.A. will fly to London at least 24 times every day; United and Pan Am will wing to Australia and India 20-30 times weekly; Braniff, Eastern and Panagra will zip to Central and South America almost as often as crack trains cross...
...somehow it glorifies the Army. It catches the right tone: combines professional training and teamwork with a roaring, youthful zip. If its humor falters, its gaiety never flags. If it lacks sophistication, it makes up for it in lustiness...
...greying locks of 39-year-old Colonel Samuel R. Harris, FSO director, were growing greyer over the problem: how to better the safety record without destroying the zip, cocksureness and daredevilish-ness of airmen bound for the battlefronts...
Army & Navy procurement officers, not wanting to take the zip out of production, are almost as opposed to a statutory limit on war profits as businessmen are. Businessmen, not wanting to be unpopular or unpatriotic, are almost as eager to avoid excessive war profits as Congressmen are. So last week, while Congressmen reconsidered a bill to limit all war-contract profits to 10% or less, the Army & Navy quietly perfected a technique of profit control that businessmen could understand...