Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest Show On Earth" scratched its big top Monday and came up with a reply: "Of course a mule can sit on its buttocks-or 'bottom...
...promote this program, N.A.M. chose as its 1948 president Morris Sayre, 62, the tall, mild-looking president of giant Corn Products Refining Co. Like many another top NAMster, Sayre started his career at the bottom. After graduating from the University of Richmond and Lehigh University, Sayre went to work for Corn Products in 1908 as a $75-a-month boiler washer. He climbed the ladder rung by rung and never lost his modesty on the way. He likes to keep his door open to any one of his 5,000 employees who has a complaint or an idea...
...Middle Men. Most of these big names were names of the '20s; what of the strong men of the '30s? Ernest Hemingway, perfectionist in style and poet of action, was sweating out a new novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published...
...like the idea. What Benes said was that the Czechs are not between Russia and America, but between Russia and Germany, and Germany and America begin to mean the same thing when the US starts planning to reindustrialize the Western Zones. The French feel the same way. At the bottom of it, you've got to realize that Germans were here for six years, that people in the street, the guy who runs the hotdog stand on the corner and all of Norman Corwin's little people are not so little. I don't know how many Czechs were killed...
...Blame. Morison makes no bones about fixing the blame: ". . . the United States Navy was woefully unprepared, materially and mentally, for the U-boat blitz on the Atlantic Coast . . . this unpreparedness was largely the Navy's own fault." While ships were going to the bottom, the Army & Navy wrangled for 18 months over control of antisub aircraft, never reached a solution. The reason? Says Morison bluntly: "Conflicting personalities and service ambitions." Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they...