Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because when serving a brief term as a park commissioner he named almost everything but the city sidewalks after himself. Generally regarded as the West Coast's No. 2 financier (Amadeo Peter Giannini, No. 1), Herbert Fleishhacker for years has headed Anglo California National Bank, seen its deposits zoom from $4,500,000 to $200,000,000. Last week his career as a banker was over...
...next five years is the encouraging outlook of 36-year-old Employment Specialist Carl Norcross Ph.D., of the New York State Department of Education, in a survey of U. S. aviation as a career* published last week. Less encouraging to every Tom, Dick and Corrigan hoping to zoom into aviation is Dr. Norcross' warning that only the well-schooled, physically and mentally superior applicant stands a chance...
...first move to overcome lagging domestic production and zoom the Royal Air Force up to par with Germany's air fighting strength, Britain's Air Ministry last week ordered from two U. S. concerns 400 planes, valued at $25,000,000. One was the largest foreign aircraft order ever placed with a U. S. firm...
Wisely, Messrs. Walk's & Bischoff left him just the same. Even the sets are careful replicas of those used on the stage. Oiwin begins his zoom to greatness when his wife (Carol Hughes) finds a small black book in his extra pants. Heckled by her suspicion that the female names therein are not the names of horses-and his brother-in-law's belief that they are horses and that he has made a fortune betting on them-Oiwin gets drunk. In the bar of the Lavillere Hotel he gives a casual race-tip to three starving horse...
...following day in the morning there will be a downhill race and in the afternoon a cross country relay. On New Year's Day the final event will be run off when the teams zoom down the Intervales 33-meter hill in the jumping meet...