Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Davis "perfect wing" as a starter, Consolidated in ten months built its new boat from the ground up without help from Army or Navy. Long before the ship had flown, however, the news of its spectacular 10,000-mile cruising range was out, and the Navy, one of Consolidated^ best customers, poked in its nose. At week's end it appeared likely that Model 31's first assignment will be as a patrol bomber for the fleet...
...pass rigorous examinations in accounting. Beyond that, their functions are virtually unregulated by law. Their methods of auditing and analyzing a corporation's balance sheet are their own, the developments of over 400 years of practice. The U. S. public first realized that these methods were not always perfect when the McKesson & Robbins scandal broke last December. How was it possible, the average investor asked, for $18,000,000 in fictitious inventories to deceive seasoned accountants...
...Perfect housekeeper, cheerful companion, admiring reader, pretty Jane Carlyle tenderly nursed her husband's rockbound dyspepsia with tasty food, his dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous...
...Stahlmen opened their scoring early with one tally both in the first and second innings. Fred Keyee led off in the sixth inning, drawing a base on balls, and was forced out at second by Schwede. Johns followed drawing another pass and pushing Schwede to second. Hoye's perfect bunt the bases, but Schwede was out attempting to score as Grondabl reached first on a selder's choice. Lupien's snappy double to left drove in Johns and Hoye for two talks. Other runs were scored in the fifth and eighth frames...
...sacks were full when Healey field to right, Tully scoring after the catch. Thereupon Captain Art Johns dropped a perfect Texas leaguer into right field, scoring Bob Fulton, who had reached on a fielder's choice...