Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow Going. But the Senators would find Little a hardheaded witness with a plausible story to tell. Little has never made a secret of his belief that Yankee workers no longer earn their high wages. When he bought eleven Southern mills (TIME, May 27, 1946), he said he found that...
"If You Don't Work." Last winter AEC agreed to launch another major assault on the power problem. Then, under urging from the military (who had become more & more interested in atomic propulsion for ships, aircraft, etc.), AEC decided to centralize its power projects at the Argonne laboratory near...
Israel's present leaders are determined that their nation will not take that path. Foremost and most determined among them is David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister, labor leader and philosopher, hardheaded, unsociable and abrupt politician, a prophet who carries a gun.
Methodical Man. A quiet, hardheaded German, Charles Boettcher came to the U.S. in 1869, when he was 17. For eleven years, he sold hardware-pickaxes and hammers, nails and hatchets-to get-rich-quick Leadville. Slowly and painstakingly, he built up his savings. Then he bought a cattle ranch and...
Died. Charles Williams Nash, 84, hardheaded, rags-to-riches automaker; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An unschooled farm boy who called himself the "most common cuss in the world," he rose from upholstery stuffer to general superintendent of a Michigan carriage company, turned to automaking in 1910...