Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral scavengers netting the very sewers." A grey, wiry little man in the army's uniform stood up to preach. Twenty years before, he told his audience, he had crawled out of the gutter into just such a meeting, figuring that he had tried everything else, and might as well...
...army had to change with the times, as the Devil himself changed, or lose the fight. In a modern world, the kind of social welfare program over which Ernest Pugmire presides is a sounder attack against the enemy than all the processions General Booth might lead today through Sheffield, and sounder than street-corner revivals. Ernest Pugmire's kind of attack also requires courage, and a Christian's stubborn patience and faith...
...each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston Braves had a long list of players who were incompatible with easygoing Manager Billy Southworth. A swap might keep both from repeating their indifferent 1949 showings...
...rise: Superior Oil Co. (California) which in three days jumped 69½ points to 227 on the news of a plan to split it into two gas & oil companies. Wall Streeters now expect the next test of the market at 200. If the bull gets over that hurdle, he might run pretty fast...
Rosy Future. Actually, in a free and once more competitive economy, Big Steel had a perfect right to raise its prices. But with the steel shortage over, it might not get away with it. Big Steel's customers certainly would not like the $80 million-a-year increase in their steel bill, especially in the light of steel profits. In the first nine months of 1949, U.S. Steel netted $133 million, 50% more than in the same period in 1948. And so far as Ben Fairless could see last week, the future looked rosy. Operations of Big Steel...