Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Raj took a bold step in India last week. Viceroy Lord Wavell named hardheaded, hard-working Sir Ardeshir Dalal, 60, of Bombay's famed House of Tata, to a seat on his Executive Council and the job of postwar industrial planning. Britain had smiled on the ambitious Bombay...
Hardheaded and perceptive, with 28 years of diplomatic experience behind him, Ambassador Grew could read the signs-of Japanese militarism as well as anyone. But many of the princes and politicians with whom he hunted wild duck or played poker seemed anything but barbarians and fools. He determined to work...
The latest stout-heart to brave the business bogey of prefabricated housing is U.S. Steel Corp.'s dynamic, hardheaded president, Ben Fairless. Big Steel, which has never had any direct contact with the ultimate consumer, last week announced the purchase of a controlling interest in the Gunnison Housing Corp...
Yet hardheaded U.S. agricultural leaders know that the current glut is evidence, not of food surplus, but of a critical deficiency of storage space. A 32% increase in food production last year over average production in 1935-39 was not matched by a corresponding increase in storage facilities. Transportation, too...
Into his place stepped a hardheaded Scotsman, 65-year-old Thomas Sivewright Catto, First Baron Catto of Cairncatto,* a British businessman of worldwide experience, who during the last three years has been joint advisor, with John Maynard Keynes, now First Baron Keynes of Tilton, to his Majesty's Treasury...