Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luncheon hour; only a dozen Senators lolled at their seats as Connecticut's Brien McMahon spoke. "The day will come," he said, "when the Soviet Union will achieve atomic weapons. When that day will be, no man knows. But that it will come is as certain as that I stand on the floor of the Senate today." McMahon was reciting the arguments for the Administration's $1,314,010,000 military-aid program...
...sixth window of clear glass opens like an eye in the blackened granite face of the old Union Trust Co. building on Grant Street, from which the Mellons run their family interests. In this window, at odd moments over the past fortnight, appeared an erect, grey-haired man in a well-tailored suit. Richard King Mellon was looking down into a large hole between Fifth Avenue and Oliver Avenue, where power shovels dug into Pittsburgh's dirt and a pile driver hammered away at a row of steel pilings...
Vision of a City. As far as the man in the window was concerned, these were minor irritations. Out of the excavation on Oliver Avenue would rise a 39-story skyscraper, the Mellon-U.S. Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision...
They Must Get Done." A friendly, subdued man, who nevertheless seemed to take his power and authority for granted, R. K. Mellon settled down conscientiously to a business routine-not letting it interfere too much, however, with his hunting, fishing and riding. A determined bachelor until he was 36, he met his wife-to-be at a horse show...
...midst of the Golden Triangle the Smithfield Evangelical Church raised a finger to God-a spire constructed of wrought iron. But Frick, Carnegie and the Mellons had left a city which was closer to man-a city in which was concentrated all the evils and ailments and shocks and problems of the nation's industrial...