Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taft's position was a little hard to follow: he wanted the U.S. to announce that it would fight if Russia made an aggressive move in Europe, but was unwilling to sign a treaty which said the same thing in a more carefully hedged...
Outside of the fact that he is a movie comedian and worth more than $10 million, Lloyd is a typical U.S. citizen. He works hard, rides a succession of hobbies (old cars, microscopy) with grim preoccupation, loves sports, and has been happily married to the same wife for 26 years-Mildred Davis, once his leading lady. He keeps himself trim at 56 by exercising, eschewing tobacco and drink...
Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, supergangster and onetime vice lord of Manhattan, has been trying hard to look calm, quiet and respectable in Italy, but he makes no secret of his yearning for New York. "I'm a city boy," Lucky once said to a reporter. "Italy's dead-nice, but dead. I like movement. Business opportunities here are no good. All small-time stuff...
...undoing was the ballpoint pen. He entered the market too late with a bad product. Eversharp lost $3.4 million in 1947; its stock fell from 25⅞ to 10¼. In November 1946, Straus had bought control of the Schick injector razor, looking for a cushion against hard times. He got a cushion all right (the razor division helped Eversharp show a $1.2 million profit last year), but there was a big pin in it. The pin was R. Howard Webster. To get the razor company, Straus had to take Webster, a big Schick stockholder, into Eversharp as a director...
Home of the Brave. A combat case history that slugs hard at anti-Negro prejudice (TIME...