Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle was for high stakes. If John Lewis finally won it, he would be the biggest man in U.S. labor. No matter how desperately C.I.O.'s Phil Murray and A.F. of L.'s Bill Green aped him, the lesson would be plain to all union men: John Lewis is the one who gets you more money despite hell, high water, the war and the President of the U.S. And money talks, to any worker whose wartime raise has long since been chewed up by high prices...
Western cattlemen, looking ahead for a year or so, fear a pinch sooner or later too. If they turn out to be right, the U.S. decision to upgrade the feeding habits of the world (from plain grain to grain converted to meat) will turn out to have been one of the costliest decisions of World...
...heaviest burden in the first phase fell on the British First Army, which had been assigned the job of clearing the rim of the plain of Tunis and running out on to the plain itself. The First had done most of this job. The height known as Long Stop Hill (TIME, May 3) was firmly in its hands. One last hill, Djebel bou Aoukaz, known to the troops as The Bou, remained before the open plain. The hill was British one day and German the next. At week's end the hill was German...
George Dixon, fortyish, is a Canadian-born, curly-haired, chunky Washington correspondent for the New York Daily News whose gay, lemonish journalese is often the frosting to a cardboard cake. Any Dixon story is entertaining, but readers can never be quite sure what is true and what is plain flapdoodle. Last week Dixon ran a delightful story in the News...
...Battle Is Too Big. Typical is the story of stocky, plain-talking Clifford Mooers, founder of Shasta Oil Co. As a young man, Mooers prospected for gold in the Yukon, ran an Alaskan trading post for three years, was a flyer in World War I. Fitted for the risky business of wildcatting, he formed his Shasta Co. in 1925. For 17 years he was glad to take the long odds. But last month he decided he could not buck the new war regulations. He sold Shasta Co. to Stanolind for $750,000. Said he bluntly: "The present trend of bureaucratic...