Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were a responsible and informed opposition, the correspondents would not have to choose between Government handouts and their own spasmodic and insufficient private investigations, and editors would be able to analyze and interpret and comment upon an informed debate instead of having to conduct the debate themselves...
...Popular dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war up till now. This is as broad as it is deep-not so much the lack of alert at Pearl Harbor or the bitterness of Bataan, or even the fire-gutted Normandie, as the flood of officially inspired uncertainty on production, on the draft, on rubber, on gas rationing, on the performance of U.S. planes; as the spectacle of bickering between Army & Navy; as production tie-ups due to inadequate Government planning; as manpower wastage due to lack of Government policy; as delay in inflation control. (Wrote James Loeb Jr., secretary...
...Army Medical Corps in World War I. He picked up more medical lore and tricks of surgery in prison hospitals. He made one modest attempt to come up the hard way: a brief internship (1930) in a West Virginia hospital, from which he was dismissed for "unprofessional conduct...
...resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter the Senate race). As last year's President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce he traveled 40,000 miles to urge U.S. businessmen to up war production. He believes in strict labor legislation, but likes to conduct his own labor relations by talking to the men themselves...
Some readers may wonder whether Abner's conduct can properly be described as The Sound of an American. World-Telegram Reviewer Harry Hansen said that the book "pounds home that you can't write a decent novel when you are trying to outdo your competitors in vulgarity. The only sound of an American that I could discern . . . was the razzberry...