Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because it had been ready to pick up the reconversion ball, industry had shaken off the bulk of the wartime controls far faster than optimists had expected. Now it could shake off the rest by doing the job, or have more controls slapped on because it had failed. There was no reason why it should fail...
...first glance Ed Pauley seemed like a doubtful choice-there could not fail to be bitter debate over his heading a department which controls so much of the nation's oil reserves. He knew little about the Navy. But big, energetic Ed Pauley had a broad background of achievement in private life-he had founded an oil company, directed a bank, helped operate a big construction company. And he had done a shrewd, sound job for the President in sizing up the reparations picture in Germany and Japan. Harry Truman liked him and trusted him; but some...
...planning and organization, pyramids of policy. But these would come to no more than all those that had gone before unless, as on this day of Nativity, 1945, man felt within himself a rebirth of what some have called "the Inner Light," others "the Christ within." They would fail like all the rest unless man achieved the ultimate humility and the power implied in one of the Bible's most peremptory commandments...
...marble staircase, ornate sparkling chandeliers and a barbershop floor inlaid with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...
...Moscow's New Times read the U.S. a history lesson implying that any attempt on its part to gain world domination via the atom would fail. ¶ At Sacramento, Calif., the aviators who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki were asked if they wanted it placed under international control. Shouted the fivers: "Hell...