Word: bluffest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest and bluffest of the four executive vice presidents is balding, 61-year-old Marvin E. Coyle, known as "Mr. Facts & Figures." (Others: Ormond E. Hunt, 65, specialist in production problems, and Albert Bradley, 57, financial expert.) Last month Mr. Coyle went to Washington, where a Senate committee wanted to talk with him about G.M. profits (which hit an astronomical net of about $450 million last year). Neither apologetic nor apoplectic, Witness Coyle pointed out that G.M.'s prices had not been out of line, that there had also been "profits for the customer." He asked the Senators...
Then Navy Secretary Frank Knox, king of all he's-up-he's-down predictors, roared in his bluffest manner: "All talk about an early ending of the war is wishful thinking. It has caused a letup in production and we're already feeling the effects. . . .It's just criminal...
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