Word: doering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt that something new had been added to Japanese air power. Tokyo recently broadcast that three new types were in action. The types: a patrol plane, the Shite (the doer); a heavy bomber, the Donryu (the destroying dragon); and a fighter, the Shoki (Righteous Purifying Spirit). "In annihilation operations," Tokyo boasted, the new planes had "made the enemy America and Britain shiver with fear...
Cargill's architect of the unconventional, who turned the dreamy meadowlands into an up-to-the-minute shipyard (for around $1,000,000) is a practical doer named Chris Jensen, 46. He joined Cargill ten years ago in a characteristically Cargill...
...Marr Nelson, the onetime Sears, Roebuck executive who plugged along quietly within the old National Defense Advisory Commission, grew in stature with every reorganization, finally emerged as the nation's Chief of the War Production Board. > Silver-haired, tall, tan and handsome Paul Varies McNutt, a joiner and doer who once looked like a merely ambitious politician, wound up last week as chief of all the nation's manpower in the new War Manpower Commission (see col. 2). > Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against inflation and its rationing...
...warfare in the years of peace. Both saw that war would come again, both dared to shout warnings when such shouting was unpopular. Wells, the dreamer, seeing how bad the war would be, was for avoiding it by organizing a new and better world. Churchill, the doer, urged military action...
...whom he calls on when he has a problem they can deal with. Ben Cohen is the New Deal's legal draftsman, not so busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department to the control of Bob Jackson and Solicitor General Francis Biddle. Smart, loyal Mr. Biddle is a Jackson libertarian who seldom sees the President, but writes many a memo for him and his counselors...