Word: whitest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...
Rivermen have a saying that Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle harbor-where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio-is "great for towboats but hell on showboats." It was hell last week on one of the biggest, whitest and trimmest of U.S. inland excursion steamers, the Island Queen...
...year-old Merchandise Mart (4,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space) cost Marshall Field $30 million to build, is still valued on its books at more than $21 million. Once the whitest of elephants, it is now 100% occupied, brings in an impressive $4,000,000 annually in rents...
...happiest observer of this cultural-financial comeback was one of the country's whitest-robed musical angels: chubby, mild-mannered Henry H. Reichhold (TIME, Dec. 18), underwriter of the Detroit Symphony's resurgence. A rich, German born manufacturer (Reichhold Chemicals Inc.) who has fiddled as a hobby, Angel Reichhold, 43, could now sit with more than usual pride in his usual box, congratulating himself that his solvent godchild was also a Manhattan-approved artistic success...
Good serious plays are scarce enough, talented new playwrights are scarcer. Whitest hope is 21-year-old, London-born Peter Ustinov, whose The House of Regrets-written when he was 19-has the critics talking of a "new Chekhov" and mumbling about genius...