Word: hardheadedness
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To run TACA, Waterman picked Jack W. Thornburg, 44, vice president and general manager of Waterman Airlines, Inc., who firmly believes that "the speculative, romantic thing" is out of airlines and the era of hardheaded operation in.
In 1946, for good reason, he was appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury. Other Truman appointments had provoked loud outcries. But Gardner was safe & sound, middle-of-the-road, and commanded respect in Congress. He had helped his friend Fred Vinson (then Secretary) on the laborious backstage negotiations for the...
Hyvää Päivää. After the war, in token that he had been forgiven for the Finnish fiasco, Zhdanov was made head of the Finnish Control Commission. Finns expected the worst, but Zhdanov is too hardheaded to bear a grudge. At Helsinki's airport a...
New President Berreta, who would take office on March 1, had had a first taste of political brimstone back in 1903-04. As a patrol leader, he skirmished on the side of famed Liberal José Batlle y Ordóñez in Uruguay's great civil war, was...
Hardheaded economists saw a good many flaws in the World Food Board Plan devised by Britain's Sir John Boyd Orr, director-general of U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. But the U.S.'s abrupt rejection of it last week illuminated a more important defect: the inability...