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Word: hardheadedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after a nationwide survey of 1,776 companies, Manhattan's hardheaded Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. predicted that all U.S. sales for the second half of 1949 will show an average decline of only 3.3% under 1948's record total. The group surveyed did not expect more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Testing the Floor | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Aside from the weird baseball chemistry, the movie's laughs come from the whimsical, confused Milland as he changes professions and from Paul Douglas, who plays Ray's catcher and room mate. Douglas, matching his stage performance in "Born Yesterday" and his other movie appearance in "A Letter to Three...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Control with a Vengeance. Actually, even among the farm groups, hardheaded farmers looked skeptically on Charlie Brannan's rabbit. From the farmer's standpoint, the suspicious part of the deal was that it would also give the Government more power to decide what farmers could plant, how they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Farm Pharmacy | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Thomas Finletter, 55, a Philadelphia-born Wall Street lawyer (son and grandson of judges) with a trigger-quick mind, served as ECA's chief in Britain. Reticent, hardheaded and caustic-humored, Finletter has been called "the little acid drop." The British did not mind his sharpness. Said one appreciative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: ECAmericcms Abroad | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

. . . You're to be congratulated for the fair and hardheaded judgments you passed on Garry Davis' "world citizenship" movement. As you so well point out, this movement, in its efforts to be objective and above national partisanship, misrepresents the nature of our difference with Russia and, falsely, tars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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