Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope of the Administration, as Lew Schwellenbach tried to pull his Labor Department together, rested on the labor-management conference due to convene in Washington Nov. 5. Politicos devoutly hoped that the big confab might have a formula for peace before the entire automobile industry could be struck. But it looked as though Harry Truman was operating on a split-second timetable. His luck would have to be good to head off a complete shutdown in Detroit...
...Only by bringing about complete unity between the Government, the Army and the people can we find a way to pull through the present national crisis of saving the country and ensuring its future. The superiority of a people is put to the real test when its country is confronted with the gravest crisis . . . though the gravity of the situation is undoubtedly more than words signify...
Actually, Willys-Overland had never made claims that the jeep would replace the tractor. But it had pointed out that a jeep could be mighty handy around a farm to pull a plow or harrow, run a saw or threshing machine, drill post holes and also take the farmer and his family to town. As to price, the jeep-makers had never predicted any lower than $900 (in vast quantities the Army paid $875 apiece...
Perhaps at that instant Lieut. Colonel Smith, veteran of 1,000 combat hours, caught a split-second glimpse of the massive grey structure, and tried to pull away...
...naval and foreign service officers with experience in Japan, argued that much of Japan's strength came from conquered areas on the Asiatic mainland and the southern islands. This school argued that invasion of Japan proper might be both costly and inconclusive; it would be better just to pull Japan's teeth by liberating the conquered areas, leave Japan alone. (The fringe of this group put their fears of a war with Russia ahead of the actual war with Japan, wanted to preserve a counterbalance...