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"No Money, Just Guts." On a Boise River project in 1908, Morrison heard that one of the contractors would make $100,000. "If that fellow can make $100,000," said Morrison, "I can make $1,000,000." With that, he marched up to a small contractor named Morris Knudsen, who...
The first method is what one might call the "Old Guts" technique. In this case the entrepreneur must procure the insides of a pay telephone--the bells especially--and must carry this with him at all times. When it is necessary for him to make a phone call from a...
But "Old Guts" strategy is sometimes impracticable because of the size of the apparatus. A less strenuous type of phonemanship is the "Bell Method." In this ploy, one need only carry with him a set of bells. After having mastered the different sound combinations by which the operator can tell...
Ears & Guts. At 11:30 that night, 22 ministers somberly gathered at the Elysee. They were just in time to hear a full report on a cavalry officers' banquet held that same evening in the Bois de Boulogne. There, in splendid regalia, Marshal Alphonse Juin had made another speech...
To great applause, the Marshal announced that he was speaking for the good of France, to force the Cabinet to put EDC to a decision. Standing at ease at the banquet table, his epaulettes glittering, his voice tinged with a sneer, he slapped at the government. "What we really need...