Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor was used to being his own boss. As a very young boss of California's Consolidated Steel Corp. he took over a company losing $172,000 a year, sparked it to a $570,000 profit before he stepped out. Marked as one of the ablest businessmen on the West Coast, he was given the presidency of Union Oil Co. in order to put new life and efficiency into that big old company-which he promptly...
After a night in Manhattan, Ambassador Grew, at 62 the ablest, most polished U.S. career diplomat in the field, went to Washington to report to his boss, Franklin Roosevelt, then closeted himself in a hideaway in the State Department and prepared a radio address to the U.S. people. Said...
...such a situation, the President needs able men. He already has working for him many of the ablest men in the country (see p. 20). But still last week the President seemed to be looking for a man-a man whom he could trust and a man whom the public trusts...
...working for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express then-but when the Nazi tanks rumbled into Paris she lit out two jumps ahead, got through to London, and took a job on trial with TIME. Six weeks later Bureau Chief Walter Graebner called her "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London." And Graebner does not toss bouquets around...
These preflight schools, organized two months ago to make U.S. naval aviators the world's toughest fighters, have attracted 600 of the country's ablest athletic coaches and have launched the most intensive three-month sport program ever undertaken in the U.S. In their curriculum, devised and supervised by onetime Annapolis Football Coach Tom Hamilton, are ten compulsory sports: football, basketball, soccer, wrestling, boxing, tumbling, swimming, track, hand-to-hand, engineering (which means ditch-digging, wood-chopping and other manual labor...