Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suppose, your privilege to state that "wits" report the "Gentleman" was to be dropped from the title of the picture Gentleman Jim but you have done so at your own risk and prejudice. It is definitely not your privilege to say that I quit work at my studio. Such a statement reflects most seriously on my professional integrity and has done me great harm in the motion-picture industry and elsewhere. Nor, despite whatever pipe dream gave you the notion, was any plumber blown through my cellar door. Your most vicious slur was that "even escape into the anonymity...
...when he was a first lieutenant in the Regular Army, he wrecked a DH4 on a night take-off for a transcontinental flight from Jacksonville to San Diego-a major project then. Fellow officers found him hanging from a strut, weeping. Did the engine quit? No. Did the undercarriage wash out? No. Structural failure? No. Well, what happened? "Damn poor piloting," said Jimmy Doolittle...
While units of the British armor hacked and widened the breach, advance units roared on, swung north to cut off the columns of the Afrika Korps retreating pell mell along the coast. Abandoned by their allies, left stranded in the south, Italian divisions fought hopelessly, finally quit (see p. 31). The British did not even bother to round them up. Their main objective was the Afrika Korps...
With a Cornell engineering degree in his hip pocket, Charlie went to work for Chicago's American Shipbuilding Co. in 1900, picked up tricks of the trade for two years, quit to buy an ancient, near-dormant shipyard at Manitowoc, Wis. It had been a clipper shipyard since 1847, and Charlie built one wooden ship for tradition's sake, then switched to steel. To speed things along he rounded up a wide-awake, corner-cutting engineering staff, set up large machine shops to make boilers and engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship...
...vice chairman, Banker Ferdinand M. Eberstadt, had swept into WPB like a high-pressure area into a vacuum. Energetic Ferd Eberstadt wanted results, right away. He drew up a new raw-materials allocation plan (see p. 90). He demanded that WPB's civilian-supply men quit stalling on their long-delayed program for nonwar requirements. WPB's lethargic old high command worked too slowly to suit him. There were bruised feelings and ragged tempers...