Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next 15 years he applied himself in officers' schools, became known respectfully as a "brain" in the Army and a top-drawer junior officer. When Douglas MacArthur became Chief of Staff, Eisenhower for a time was his aide. Mechanization was a fetish with MacArthur, and so it was with Eisenhower. He was a tank...
...represent labor, farmers and management. Five were well-known presidents of well-known pressure groups.* Least known to the U.S. public, but highly respected in Washington for his practical know-how, was the sixth: bald, outspoken Ralph E. Flanders, 62, a shrewd and independent Yankee and a top-drawer engineer...
Significantly, Nelson's ideas amounted to the first admission from any top-drawer Washington war man that hope of getting any large volume of war orders for small industry is just about gone-though that hope is still personified by a $150,000,000 WPB adjunct, the Smaller War Plants Corp.* But Donald Nelson's realism may nonetheless offer the little fellow a better break in the long run than all the gentle small-business panaceas that millions of words, good intentions-and taxpayers' dollars-have so far produced...
...they received in a favorable period 30 years ago. Now they wanted a 12% bonus above this; and wanted 90% parity prices guaranteed them by Government loans. If there were a loss, the Government, meaning the U.S. people, would take it; if there were a profit, the top-drawer farmers would absorb...
...staff, the development of a new system to ease raw-material shortages, the fact that WPB-which has no control over manpower or prices-is intrinsically a poor substitute for a genuine Economic High Command. And it still remains to be seen whether even really top-drawer industrial executives can get Washington's huge bureaucracy to function-or will be able to put up temperamentally with its futility...