Word: hardboiledness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The man who bounced the U.S. over the rubber hump is chubby, puckish-looking Bradley Dewey, 67, who announced his resignation last week on the plea that his job was done. (After a short vacation in September, he will resume the presidency of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., Cambridge, Mass.) When...
But what hardboiled, fact-minded C.E. was really after, he said, was permission 1) to buy some reconversion tools; 2) to engage in small-scale reconversion experiments right away. In the long run, he said, G.M. will need some 45,000 new tools, but it could start the ball rolling...
Last week the President & Commander in Chief ordered a fast and hardboiled review of 5,000,000 occupational deferments. Because of past leniencies, the Commander in Chief's Selective Service was 200,000 short of its quota. As a result, the Army had to reduce its college training program...
The Paymaster. In all England no one was happier about the results than a wry, freckled Pennsylvania Dutchman, Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. strategic bombing forces. "Tooey" Spaatz is a hardboiled, able airman who has fought the battles of air power all the way from Washington to Britain...
Navy's Pride, Navy's Woe. Seabees are a rough & ready outfit, hardboiled, hard-driving ex-civilians who sneer at protocol and red tape and are always taking short cuts instead of "going through channels." They have had their tiffs with the always proper Navy. Stevedores, handling all...