Word: front
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there has been some lethargy on the organizing front, perhaps the prior need to fight on the contract front in part accounts...
...moderate's role for him. on the reasonable theory that it will be popular with the voters. But whenever Humphrey takes the speaker's stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. "It's the most dangerous thing in the world," he says. "That's what...
...Arizona location, Air Force Reserve Colonel James Stewart, playing an Army major in a blood-and-mud World War II movie titled Mountain Road, stepped front and center, got an almost-legal field promotion. The film's technical adviser, retired Army Brigadier General Frank Dorn, pinned stars on the collar of "Major" Stewart's soiled fatigue uniform. Cinemactor Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since...
...equipment. The U.S. has no monopoly on progress; foreign steel tycoons are also fully aware of the need to forge ahead, are engaged in a race whose stake is bigger markets, more efficiency, lower costs. The race requires enormous amounts of money, especially for the U.S., which carries the front runner's burden of keeping the world's biggest steel industry up to the times...
Blough was well aware that he had to fight a two-front war. He not only had to fend off McDonald but, like any man who has put together a grand alliance, also had to keep the other steel companies united behind him. Both Blough and McDonald knew that if one company broke from line and made a private settlement, all the others would have to follow. McDonald has scurried about in search of an opening in management's ranks, tried time and again to sit down with the heads of individual steel companies. But Blough, skilled in negotiating...