Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that made a frontiersman out of wealthy, idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover an elk's head. He decided to go to the Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest. He had no particular goal, and only one letter of introduction...
Last August, Son Edsel Ford and tough, brilliant Production Manager Charles E. Sorensen visited Hartford, Conn., where Pratt & Whitney had already upped its capacity nearly ten times since January 1939. Abuilding were factory additions which would double the August capacity, give P. & W. a production rate of 17,000 to 20,000 engines a year by late 1941. Said Charles Sorensen: "I did not believe such a stupendous job could be done in such a short time." Then he went back to Detroit, broke ground for an $11,000,000 engine plant there before he got his contract...
...make the best bargain he can. Britain could give him no help against Germany. Yet it is Britain which has enabled Stalin to pursue his none too cooperative tactics so far-not by diplomatic pressure or concessions, but by keeping her fleet intact.In one of his occasionally brilliant analyses of the war, U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann last week outlined his view of the relationship between British seapower and Comrade Molotov's visit...
There are numerous reasons why the practice is unsound. Following so quickly on the heels of the final big game, some brilliant performance by an individual assumes an importance outweighing the quality of inspirational leadership. Enthusiasm rather than sober judgment tends to away the vote. The ten months intervening between the election and the start of the next season can readily develop drastic and unforeseeable circumstances. Captains elect have been forced to give up their college careers for varied, personal reasons. Captains elect have flunked out of college. Captains elect have gone on probation and were ineligible to lead their...
...rated in Canada as an unofficial spokesman for the Government. Two years ago, when Chamberlain capitulated to Adolf Hitler at Munich, Baxter believed with many another Briton that "never again would any dictator . . . dare to ask his people to face a world war." With all respect to such brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group of men to refuse to support their leader. Actually it is one of the crudest decisions that...