Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took off in the early afternoon with clouded mountains beckoning; by darkness we had crossed into Jap-held territory. The Superfortress' four big engines throbbed rhythmically under the careful hands of her pilot, 26-year-old Captain Robert Root. Beside him, watchful and calm, was his copilot, blond Lieut. Clifford Anderson. I sat on the cold escape hatch just opposite Lieut. Peter Coury, the flight engineer, who kept steady watch on his multitude of instruments...
...answers. He was hard at work to pull Colt out of its queer hole, if anyone could. Gunman Anthony, born in Shelby, N.C., graduated from North Carolina State College into a job in a machine shop. By the black days of 1932 he was president of Veeder-Root, Inc. (mechanical counting devices) in Hartford, Conn. Veeder-Root was on the downgrade, as were so many firms, and losing money. Anthony managed to stop the skid and make Veeder-Root profitable. He is still board chairman. His strategy to save Colt: "Get out the guns...
...unknown artist drew a picture of a soldier in battle array and crusading posture with one arm flung up-his fingers had grown branches, his feet had taken root like a tree...
...Communists were there, too. And now the Communists and the bankers were in agreement. Part of this had a familiar ring-the resentment of the outlander over the fact that his choices in life seemed to be controlled by another world a long way off. ... It is the root-this resentment and frustration -of all the radical movements that have had origin in the Middle West from the Populists down to the Coughlinites. It would serve as the mainspring of our 'National Socialism' if an economic collapse should open the way to such a calamity...
...many strikes, which withhold labor and new inventions from production; violence on the picket line, sometimes incited by management's hired thugs. The worst economic sin, said Johnston, is restraints on production by "featherbedding" and "slow-downing" designed to make more jobs and make them last longer. Root cause of this evil is fear of layoffs; management must try to give its workers continuous employment, backed by adequate unemployment insurance...