Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's wishing this swell program success...
...companies denied all the charges, will probably carry their case to the Supreme Court. Their contention, as presented to the jury by American Tobacco's Attorney George Whiteside: the Government's real complaint was that the companies were "guilty of the unpardonable sin of success...
...course, not all pictures are made on this theory. But the success of those few intelligent movies which Hollywood produces only strengthens the case of the advocates of a more advanced I.Q. for the persecuted moviegoing public, and perhaps some day it will persuade Hollywood that movies can be an uplifting rather than a degrading force in American life. There are innumerable fields of cultural entertainment as yet untapped by the movie moguls. All the great literature from Homer to Galsworthy lie open; the copyrights are for the most part non-existent; the entertainment value is unquestioned. The only debatable...
...Sanders went after the U.S. railroads' 1,750,000 freight cars. Results: practically zero. Railroad men thought roller bearings' proved success on passenger cars and locomotives was no sign they were the best thing for freight cars. Furthermore, they thought them much too luxurious for freight cars, would as soon put Pullman roomettes in cabooses...
...their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska in 1931, helped found the Chicago Grand Opera Co. in 1934. Ill during the last years of his life, he married Adah Wilson, his nurse...