Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military comrades-among them Marshals Timoshenko, Rokossovsky and Sokolovsky-"pointed out the serious shortcomings of Zhukov's work . . . unanimously condemned his wrong, unpartylike behavior." Marshal Ivan Konev suddenly discovered that Zhukov shared the blame with Stalin for Soviet reverses early in World War II, did not deserve much credit for the Stalingrad victory, had hindered more than helped at the conquest of Berlin. All in all, Konev concluded, "it would be absurd to affirm Zhukov's alleged exceptional part in the Great Patriotic...
...last week Thorneycroft's austere measures (tightened credit, a ceiling on investment) were beginning to take effect. As he had planned, the pulse of the economy beat slower. The London stock market dipped to a three-year low. Bankers advised clients to postpone expansion plans. In some industries production had already begun to sag. Last week Thorneycroft slashed government investment still further by cutting back allocations for nuclear power plants, modernization of railroads and slum clearance...
...last April. Since he did not have his degree (he was one credit short in physical education), the camp tagged him "clerk-typist" and thought no more about him. Then last fortnight Shult's old professor, Geneticist Carl C. Lindegren, let out a blast. The private, said the professor, "is the outstanding mathematical genius I have encountered in 30 years," and the Army was "letting him wither on the vine...
...came, Grace went to work furiously as usual. Beth Steel became one of the top U.S. war contractors, turned out 73 million tons of steel, built 1,127 ships, repaired or overhauled 37,000 others. More than any other civilians, Grace and his lieutenant, Arthur Homer, got the credit for building a two-ocean navy...
...results of the tight-money policy have been to discourage attempts to provide increased productivity in important sectors of the economy and to discourage the production of new housing facilities for an increasing population. Credit restraint enables large firms, and firms in non-competitive markets, to expand more easily than businesses in competitive markets. By encouraging, rather than discouraging, capital expansion, the Administration could insure more goods for which dollars of income compete, thus limiting inflationary tendencies. Increased real income, not decreased monetary income should be the goal. Special loan funds or accelerated amortization might be used to expand production...