Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet Andy McDonough put on his oxygen mask, circled to the northeast, making a mental note to stay away from the field so that he wouldn't "mess up the airport" if the dive wasn't a success. At 27,000 feet he was 15 miles northeast of the field. The outside thermometer registered 33 below. To the northwest, 25 miles away, he could see Niagara Falls. He called the ground: "... will dive from west to east." Then he turned on the fixed movie camera, focussed on the faces of his instruments-altimeter, clock, airspeed indicator, thermometer...
Open & Shut. Nearly all appraisals of Jesse Jones sound like the baldest kind of hokum success stories, 1929 model. The pattern of his career seems as simple as Boy Makes Good, except that the caption should probably be: Boy Makes Perfect...
...horizons to include the nation. If he wants Mr. Fuddyduddy removed from a directorate - bank, railroad or whatever - he has only to drop a light hint. Jones-trained employes are skilled hint-interpreters; the men he puts in office are expert hint-takers. For such reasons, underneath the success-story fragrance that surrounds the saga of Jesse Jones, there is still a whiff of old rancors, the skeletons of unforgiven deals, the shadows of shadowy doings. But in Houston, men say: "Well, we'd rather have Houston the way it is today, with all of Jesse's sharp...
...conclusions flatly contradicted those who believe that the easy way to publishing success is to pander to low public tastes: "A newspaper is not a mirror reflecting the nature of the community where it is published. ... On the contrary, the newspaper in any of these 28 cities could probably change its content . . . without losing much circulation or causing much criticism or even having the changes noticed, if it made them slowly enough. Indeed, a sordid commercialism could find moderate support for its kind of newspaper in our 'best' cities; a competent idealism could find support for its kind...
...units; ICC found that the companies had only $10,617,958 in tangible assets. Moreover, out of capital of $24,751,824 which Transport wanted to raise by selling stock, a whopping $3,424,-964 would have gone as profit to the organizers, promoters and bankers (presuming the success of the underwriting...