Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make his trip worthwhile, Franklin Roosevelt would have to come home with some firm commitments, some firm promises on these and many other major issues. They were delicate enough to make any politician plead for silence, at least until the meeting had ended. After that, the lid would be off, whether the President liked...
With Allied forces holding a firm footing on Luzon, Japanese strategists, meeting in Tokyo last week, had to make up their minds on many vital questions. Should they try to hold any part of their southern conquests? Should they continue to reinforce Luzon, to drag out the delaying action, and thus buy time? Should they dispose their forces for an archipelagic war or for a continental...
Meek, enthusiastic, little Samuel James Wanous (rhymes with "on us"), 37, business-administration professor at U.C.L.A., calls himself "just another of those damned bureaucrat professors" and conducts classes under the firm impression that sooner or later one of his students will shy an inkwell at him. Dr. Wanous has good reason to be apprehensive. With his colleague, energetic Dr. William Francis Brown, 33, he lectures on such contentious subjects as the Wagner Act, the Wages and Hours Act, the economic weapons of labor and management, the causes of industrial unrest. His students: management executives and union officials from the Douglas...
...trying to keep a firm hand on the valve, stuck to its new ceilings, and hoped. Steel and meat prices are potent components in the cost of living; if they get out of hand, the whole price structure totters...
...press-agent stunts have to be carefully curried. When Washington's National Cathedral arranged to have the remains of Admiral Dewey dug up and placed under its nave, a freshman employe of Tamblyn & Brown was so impressed that he immediately got off an office memorandum suggesting that the firm keep its eye on ex-President William Howard Taft (then alive) for its client, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...