Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns roar, planes zoom, and red blood flow on the battlefields! Civilization is collapsing, but bigger and better books will be written about its sinking. Strangely enough, it appears that most of them will be on one subject, British army life, for that is what publishers seem to crave today. Eleven book concerns in eleven different countries have just awarded a $15,000 prize for a novel on this theme by Major Henriques of His Majesty's Territorials. Now Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners must take a back seat while the doughty Major assumes his place in the forefront...
Saturday's preholiday two-hour trading session showed clearly that U. S. investors were eager to cut themselves into war profits. War stocks continued to zoom and the Dow-Jones industrial average hit 137.97, helped by war babies, unhurt by nonwar stocks, which generally stood still or picked up small gains. Between 10 o'clock and noon 1,791,250 shares changed hands...
Your Wings was published in January 1937. Before long, flying schools began to recommend it to students. Airlines, instrument companies, even CCC camps bought it. Tennessee, where flying courses are provided in State-run air schools, made it a textbook. Your Wings got its mightiest circulation zoom last spring, when the Soviet Government cornered the Russian rights and distributed 100,000 copies...
Last week Your Wings, still a best selling book on aviation, seemed headed for another zoom. With the Civil Aeronautics Authority starting a drive to train 20,000 pilots annually in U. S. colleges and universities, Assen Jordanoff's dialogues were easily the most readable preliminary instructions available...
...mere horse feed. Both had been beaten by mediocre horses since last spring. But 40,000 devotees, nonetheless interested, jampacked the old Civil War race course outside Baltimore. In hushed silence they watched the two thoroughbreds walk up to the starting line,* watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite, was closing the gap-one length, two lengths. At the half-mile post they were neck & neck; at the three...