Word: outsold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lusty Child. There were early flops, but the flops were soon outnumbered by notable successes. Trim, clean-lined stoves, oil heaters, refrigerators and washing machines outsold their ugly predecessors and those of competitors. Streamlining, which had the laudable purpose of cutting down wind resistance in trains, cars, etc., became such a craze that it was even inflicted on such static objects as desk sets. Little by little the hardy, struggling band proved that their artistry could draw that prettiest curve of all to businessmen−an upward-sweeping sales curve...
Even conservative, Finnish-born Jules Andre, a top ski clothes designer, was showing a fancy two-piece outfit. The mass manufacturers had also ducked up. Portland, Ore.'s White Stag Manufacturing Co., whose ski clothes had outsold all others for years (last year's gross: some $1,500,000), stepped out with a jazzy checkered suit (price...
Sinclair Lewis produced a novel that outsold anything he had ever written, including much better novels. Kingsblood Royal, his 19th novel, a crudely black & white dramatization of racial prejudice in a Midwestern town, hit an exposed nerve of U.S. society. So did a rash of other race-relations novels (led by Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement). They were no doubt well-intended, but most were conscientious catastrophes, shrill and thin-blooded...
Help Yourself. Ed Carter has always been customer-minded. As a part-time department store salesman while working his way through U.C.L.A., he outsold his full-time colleagues, saved enough to go to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. There in his first year he copped top honors and a scholarship. He went to work for the May Co. and was making $50,000 a year as merchandising manager when he decided to join Broadway. The chief bait: a share in the profits and a stock option deal that may make him (if he succeeds in his promise...
...first took hold in Rio when a recording by co-author Francisco Canaro Argentina's "Mr. Tango," outsold the best carnival sambas. Canaro promptly rushed Chola up to press the advantage...