Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While other nations have given in to self-pity and threats to go all-out for Communism, the Japanese are proving that hard work and plain guts are the only methods which will enable a beaten nation to revive itself. Japan may be America's "ace in the hole" in a future war. General MacArthur knows it, but does Congress...
When it stops in Mississippi will it be made plain...
What most Frenchmen feared was that the day Premier Ramadier was turned out, the showdown between De Gaulle and Communism would begin. A former Resistance worker voiced the mood of many plain men last week: "Now we enjoy our food and our wine and the sunshine on the coast-as long as we have them to enjoy-and we can only hope that our children can learn enough to do better. We are finished...
...soon plain that Senator Martin was only sounding a rather obvious generality. Ed Martin, a longtime friend of steelmen, had allowed them to obtain advance notice of his remarks. As he spoke, newsmen already had copies of the steelmen's reply. Up rose U.S. Steel's President Benjamin Fairless to deliver it. "It is simply amazing to me," he said, "that anyone should suggest, by inference or otherwise, that U.S. Steel has a public-be-damned attitude. Our attitude is, and will always continue to be, just the reverse...
...Antonio Bermudez, the hard-hitting whiskey maker who bosses Pemex, the solution was plain: he had to bring U.S. oilmen, and their know-how and capital, back into Mexico-if he could find anyone willing to come in under the restrictive law. In Mexico City recently he met suave J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N.Y., a veteran dealer in oil royalties. Jones talked so persuasively about oil that Bermudez decided that he was the man. Last week Bermudez announced the first U.S.-Mexican oil contract since the expropriation...