Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Profitable though National Steel has been through the lean years, it will not be so conspicuous when & if real recovery comes to the steel industry. It has prospered through amazing management and strategic plant location, plus the fact that a large part of its output goes into tin cans and automobiles-both steady customers, good years & bad. And it will get more than its share of future prosperity. But U. S. Steel, whose presidency Ernest Tener Weir reportedly refused, can make much more money in a single year than the sum of National Steel's assets...
Just after she made herself the most astonishing track & field figure of the 1932 Olympic Games, Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, lean, hungry-looking Dallas insurance clerk, announced that when she got around to it she would become a golf champion (TIME...
...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
...Vice President Garner's leather chair on the dais sat the Senate's president pro tern. Nevada's lean, hawk-nosed Key Pittman. Above the general hubbub he cried out: "The point of order is well taken...
Into his place bounded hard-driving Hugh Baillie, executive vice president. Lean, bristle-haired, Hugh Baillie talks like a drill sergeant, moves like a football halfback. For a year he has shouldered most of the presidential responsibilities at U. P.'s Manhattan headquarters. By Karl Bickel's age formula. President Baillie's tenure should be six years...