Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed in thrift, personal integrity, personal independence and the necessity of toil; he abhorred with equal fervor, tobacco, alcohol and ostentation. His favorite dishes were tripe and pig's feet. Although he was an officer of 43 companies and corporations, he shared a small, low-ceilinged office in Boston's museum-like State Street Trust Co. with his secretary (who comes from Illinois). He contemplated buying a new hat as reluctantly as he would have considered selling the house he had built in Concord...
Most discouraging of all was the lack of progress in breaking some of the worst bottlenecks. Item: freight-car output had slipped 15%. Fractional horsepower motors were being turned out at record speed. But the backlog of unfilled orders was still equal to 21 months' production. As for the steel shortage, CPA said with exaggerated pessimism: demand will exceed supply "for several years...
...safely predict who is going to win these days unless he knows what mood the athletes are in around two o'clock Saturday afternoon. The late debacle in the Stadium, together with the Princeton-Penn upset down in Franklin Field, show that, all other factors being about equal, the team that is "up" for the game will...
With the weather man predicting a fair cool afternoon, an estimated 20,000 spectators at the Boylston Street paladium will see a duel between two lines about equal in weight, with the Crimson forced for still another week to guard against an overhead barrage. Operating from the T and QT, the Rutgers eleven features an excellent passer in quarterback Frank Burns, as well as a good breakaway run her in 18-year-old Herm Hering...
...Scarlet squad boasts a strong, rugged line with a host of capable reserves and a deceptive attack. It is perhaps as versatile an offense as the Crimson will sec all year, with equal balance on the ground and in the air. Coach Harvey Harman, former director or Penn's football fortunes, is regarded as a shrewed tactician, and undoubtedly has saved a few of his brainchildren for his meeting with the Harlow squad...