Word: glumly
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...union of United Saw, File & Steel Products Workers called a walkout- ostensibly for a union shop and a 10% pay rise, really to bring recalcitrant members of the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee union (recently defeated in an NLRB election at the plant) into line. Glum at having their party called off, Disston workers trod their picket line without bitterness. Said one laconic oldtimer: "Well, they wanted a closed shop-and they...
...glum business world, still choked with inventory from the war-spurred boom of late 1939, it was a Page One story. For last week's steel production rate had sunk to a dismal 60.7% from the 90%-plus of last October-December. And on the Stock Exchange, U. S. Steel was stranded around 55, down one-third from last September when Hitler's mechanized army was mopping up Poland...
...summons had been unexpected but imperious: "Dear Vag--There has been an ugly bare spot on my dressing table ever since Scotties went out of fashion. Could use your picture to fill it up until I think of something more original. Please try not to look as glum as usual...
...five Jews and sold it to seven Scotchmen at a profit, this was a dire prophecy. Yet the pert, imaginative magnifico-who cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. and in 1909 impudently invaded London, with U. S. merchandising methods-had reason to be glum. Three weeks ago he resigned his chairmanship of Selfridge & Co., Ltd., great, gaunt, sprawling department store on Oxford Street west of Oxford Circus, took the inactive, empty post of president...
Secretary of State Hull trudged into the White House one day last week looking glum and tired. Despite his reiterated warnings that war abroad was imminent, and that if it came the President of the U. S. should have a hand more free than he is allowed under the present Neutrality Act, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had just voted finally not to revise Neutrality at this session of Congress. The Committee's vote was close: 12-to-11. It was particularly painful to Cordell Hull because one of those who voted against him was his old friend Walter...