Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philipp Heineken, and elected Nazi Helfferich to serve also as their board chairman. No plans whatever for the re-organization of Germany's two greatest shipping lines were announced. Last spring Chancellor Hitler gave correspondents to understand that he viewed with disfavor their close working agreement, thought they ought to compete more vigorously. Last week Double Chairman Helfferich, in whose person Hamburg-American and N. G. L. seemed definitely united, went blithely off for a country holiday, left officials of the two lines to carry on with only this vague injunction...
When Marie Dressier writes for publication, her words are often more sentimental than spontaneous. The flavor of a character which is attractive because it has remained warm, vulgar, direct, somewhat unsophisticated but far from unwise is conveyed better in the extemporaneous Dressier aphorisms that Hollywood especially admires. "I ought to have had a dozen kids and made their clothes and done their washing. . . . I always felt sorry for beautiful women. . . . Keep working always. 'It brings luck. ... A lady may stand on her head in a perfectly decent self-respecting way. . . ." Said Marie Dressier when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered...
...course, wiped out by depreciation, bond interest etc., etc. but the turnabout was decisive. Moreover it was achieved on operations averaging only 27.5% of capacity. For July Steel's operations were estimated by Chairman Myron C. Taylor at 53% of capacity-a rate which if maintained ought to bring U. S. Steel quickly into a land of milk & honey.* That these figures represented not only the fortunes of U. S. Steel but of a big part of the steel industry was shown two days later when Bethlehem Steel reported its deficit cut from...
...sturgeon, had a mouth like a catfish, leaped like a tarpon, pulled like a whale." Next morning Congressman McClintic turned up at his office with bandaged hands. Said he: "I'm through with deep-sea fishing. An old bullhead and sun-perch man, with a reputation for veracity, ought never to have taken it up in the first place...
...moral obligation" to compensate holders of the bonds injured by the U. S. Congress' cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that the Government have sought to convince themselves by ingenious arguments that we ought to pay more than we owe! If the Exchequer is going to be generous, I suggest that there are many worthier recipients of charity-such as the unemployed-than wealthy bondholders...