Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel's extra cut to its stockholders implied that steelmen expected the boom to continue. Said U.S. Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds: "There has been little letup, almost no letup, in demand for steel." Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene Grace entered a mild dissent: he had already detected some "softening in demand for many lines of steel." But Grace, who may have hoped by such talk to ease some of Washington's pressure for steel expansion, was not really pessimistic. Said he: "Even with the softening, I feel pretty safe in saying that our schedules...
Boss in Peoria. But big Cat hit its fastest pace after 1941, when Louis Bontz Neumiller stepped into its $75,000-a-year presidency. Unlike Earthworm's whip-cracking President Gilbert Henderson, Neumiller is a surprisingly mild-looking, soft-spoken man-a moderator more than a boss. As his friend Author Upson puts it, Neumiller "just sort of grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after...
According to tradition, if they soe their shadows, they beat a hasty retreat to their burrows for six more weeks of winter. If the day is cloudy, however, they allegedly remain above ground, confident of continuing mild weather...
...Monsignor Curtis Tiernan. Some of the ladies felt a little trepidation. Pug-nosed, cheerful Monsignor Tiernan, the boys' old World War I chaplain, had never been a stern watchdog and he didn't look like one. His charges-staid-looking Midwest businessmen-were kicking up a mild and happy uproar when the train pulled out. They were the boys of Harry Truman's old Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F., on their way to Washington for the big show...
...minor injury resulted. Eliot Taylor '52 received several brisk kicks in the head and perhaps suffered a mild brain concussion...