Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resigned from G.E. "in 40 seconds" to be one of Donald Nelson's vice chairmen of the War Production Board. ("Hell's loose, and I've got to do something about it," said Wilson.) Right off, he began battling with Manhattan Investment Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, one of Nelson's ablest assistants, over methods of getting the most out of U.S. corporations. Their differences of approach eventually boiled down to the question of which man would go and which would stay. Nelson ruled for Wilson and fired Eberstadt, although Wilson later came to praise (and use) Eberstadt...
...Republicans considered the consequences of their denunciation? The answer was that they had. A few hotheads had solved their problem on a "to hell with it" basis. Others had decided that as long as Acheson must go, it might as well be now as ever; the U.S. was obviously going to go from one crisis to another for as long as man could look ahead. The U.S. people, New York's Irving Ives was convinced, were fed up with Acheson. "It all stems from the tragic mistakes made in Asia. Acheson is not entirely responsible for what happened...
...Corps. An officer stared blackly out over the rubble, waved at the freight cars, tanks and stacks of other heavy equipment and said, "God, we just got most of this stuff in here. If the gooks keep on coming, we're going to have to turn right the hell around and blow it all up again. God help the taxpayers...
...guilty! I am a sinner!" screamed fat-faced Ilse Koch to her jailers. In her frenzy-whether genuine or faked-she smashed the furniture in her cell and babbled about heaven, hell...
There was silence, then someone yelled: "Who the hell is Paul Colin...