Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambulance took me to a landing craft and, with several other wounded, I soon found myself alongside a ship. A hook descended over the boat and the sailors fastened lines around my stretcher and that of another man. When we came abreast of the rail, careful hands seized our stretchers and voices said: "Good work, soldier...
While the cadets watched, officers demonstrated some lore of survival. One found a swampy spot, dug up the edible roots of cattails. Another showed how to twist a fish line from tough inner bark, whittle a hook from a thorned twig. A third whacked out a four-foot section of wild grapevine which dripped a cupful of clear water, surprisingly sweet and cool to the taste...
...sales job (with a Field Division); 2) an ambitious study project (with a Research Division). But the most important thing about C.E.D. is that, however big it sounds, the job it has taken on is strictly confined to what business can reasonably be expected to do on its own hook. If C.E.D. achieves its limited objective-and that is still, of necessity, a big if-U.S. businessmen can truthfully say that they have done all that businessmen can do to obviate widespread unemployment after...
Wiry, bespectacled Charles R. Hook, president of American Rolling Mill Co., last week put this question bluntly to a Cincinnati conference of the Ohio American Legion. In trying to answer it himself, hardheaded Mr. Hook, onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, brought forth no alchemical formula for postwar prosperity. He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent. Now Armco's president thinks it is time for other black books, for more old-fashioned...
...plan dressed in all the gimcrackery of Hollywood was last week mushrooming across the country as an alleged solution for war-plant absenteeism. Workers were being wooed to come to work regularly-and on time-by lotteries. The hook: only workers with perfect attendance records are eligible for the prizes...