Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, when the Democratic primary returns were counted, it was obvious that the voters lumped all the Longs together, and that many were disgruntled at Old Earl's tax boosts (TIME, Aug. 30). Russell won by less than 10,000 votes. It was, nevertheless, a handsome victory. It made Russell the youngest U.S. Senator (he would be 30 the day after the final election in November) to be elected since West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt in 1935.* And it strongly bulwarked the Long tribe's power in Louisiana...
More Money. Despite its achievements and its obvious value in good will for the U.S., SESP has had its bumps from the economy-minded U.S. Congress. IIAA's appropriation has been halved, and the agency's power to contract with foreign governments limited to one year. Next winter, the new U.S. Congress may wipe out IIAA altogether...
...coming lawyer in Saginaw, Mich., caught the eye of Dick Grant, Hanna's general counsel, and joined the company. In 1929, young Humphrey moved into the presidency. Under him, Hanna made money even during the worst years of the depression. Humphrey says: "We only do the obvious." But he has the knack of making money out of the obvious...
Rayon & Heir. It was obvious that Detroit's motor industry, biggest U.S. steel consumer, could use a mill of its own. But it had none until Humphrey put together Great Lakes Steel, later merged it into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss...
...cast it is possible to like, and the longer the show goes on, the harder it is to believe that he has good sense. When he finally does come clean, his wife's reactions to the truth are unqualifiedly abominable, and remain so. But it is obvious-and hard to bear-that Dick and everyone else connected with the making of this movie regard her as an ideal wife whose abominableness is completely justified...