streamliners

Bradley's film career came to a climax with three of the producer Hal Roach's "streamliners" (comedy films which lasted less than an hour): Brooklyn Orchid (1942), Two Mugs from Brooklyn (1942) and Taxi, Mister (1943).

Grace Bradley obituary Ronald Bergan 2010

Bradley's film career came to a climax with three of the producer Hal Roach's "streamliners"

The Guardian World News Ronald Bergan 2010

Anyway, I scooted off to catch my local train, (thirty four quid for a single ticket to Market Harborough), running past the sleek streamliners humming out to Liege or wherever, to where it's still the same old Midland Misery Line.

Archive 2007-11-01 Peter Ashley 2007

Anyway, I scooted off to catch my local train, (thirty four quid for a single ticket to Market Harborough), running past the sleek streamliners humming out to Liege or wherever, to where it's still the same old Midland Misery Line.

Cast Iron Constitution Peter Ashley 2007

Unlike America Online, for instance, which screens and preselects sites for clients who tend to be streamliners and delegators, Yahoo! wants its customers to have virtually unlimited choices.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

Customers in the bottom quadrants of our matrix—streamliners and delegators—are far more interested in reliable performance than in having the latest fad.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

“Surprise us” is their mantra, which distinguishes them from streamliners, for whom surprises are generally unwelcome.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

If one day they speak to search-and-browsers, the next day it is toward streamliners or delegators that their efforts seem aimed.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

The gambit worked, bringing in more customers, most of them streamliners, for whom the restaurants were now closer and therefore more convenient.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

And as long as there are streamliners, that will be the formula for finding and keeping them.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001