Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow-speaking, nail-hard adventurer was walking around the town of Yellowknife last week in a bright golden haze. Ulric Joseph ("Spud") Arsenault, a trapper and prospector in the Northwest Territories, had staked out 20 likely-looking claims about 50 miles north of Yellowknife last year. Last week Beaulieu Yellowknife Mines, Ltd. agreed to pay him $100,000 cash for his properties, give him 250,000 shares of stock (worth 50? a share to start) in the new company organized to develop them...
...years, Puritans attacked most of Dreiser's novels tooth & nail for their frankness and coarseness. The Bulwark is Dreiser's tender tribute to all that was good in the forces which most bitterly attacked...
...bumper years: they had planted shelter belts of trees, cultivated on the contour, tilled scientifically to stop wind erosion, and left soil-holding trash on their land. Drawing on ingenuity and junk piles, local blacksmiths had turned out terracing machines during the war. A reasonable rain or snow would nail down the soil for the year, and save the wheat...
...million project for converting Army barracks into temporary housing for veterans. Wearing his inevitable Homburg with the preciseness of a toy soldier, he accepted an honorary membership in the A.F. of L.'s United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, thereupon took six hammer strokes to drive the first nail into a two-by-four. The resulting picture looked for all the world like candidate-with-Indian or candidate-with-dead-fish, only a little better...
Biting their nails like so many prospective fathers, businessmen have waited for third-quarter earnings of the "reconversion" quarter. Only then would they know what cutbacks and the shift to peacetime production had done to profits. Last week, as the first batch of reports came out, the nail-biting stopped...