Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only by the first week's end could the Associated Press report that communications had become "well established," that there was now "reasonable assurance" of prompt, direct coverage from France...
...blame? The Navy had botched the job. The Navy had confidently told WPB that it was giving the workers six weeks' notice. But stopping delivery of completed planes (at Brewster's assembly plant in Johnsville, Pa.) six weeks hence had meant the prompt shutdown of Brewster in Long Island City, which makes sub-assembly parts far in advance. The Navy, doing things its own way, had not troubled to find out how Brewster operated, before moving in on the kill. And Franklin Roosevelt's two high-powered agencies to handle reconversion (in WPB and OWM) had been...
...Prompt and willing obedience to the orders that I shall issue is essential...
...granite Senate chamber of the capitol at Austin last week, George Butler had the votes to crack the whip. Every speech, every motion the New Dealers made was drowned out in boos and catcalls. When handsome, New Dealing Representative Lyndon B. Johnson hovered near the platform to prompt pro-Roosevelt speakers, the Texans shouted, "Throw Roosevelt's pin-up boy out of there. Get that yes man off the platform...
This resulted from Pennsy's attempt last July to sell a $28,483,000 bond issue of its subsidiary Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Co. through Kuhn, Loeb, which had long been handling most of their refinancing. As usual, prompt objection had come from peppery Cyrus Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co., and from publicity-shy, dapper Harold Stuart of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. Champions of competitive bidding from way back, they cried that the traditional system of financing through private negotiation be tween underwriters and railroads had al lowed Kuhn, Loeb and Manhattan's Morgan...