Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With cold courage LeMay held the course seven minutes, although planes around him were going down and his own plane was hit by flak. Upon landing he posted a new order, ruthless but necessary: no more evasive action over the targets. ("Having paid the price of admission to get over the target, we've got to get the benefits.") His men saw the casualty list go up, tagged the skipper "Old Ironpants." But LeMay got bombing results. He led many a flight himself, including the famed raid on the Messerschmitt plant at Regensburg in August...
...Most portentous Cabinet appointment: Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell to be Minister of Mines. To him will fall the tough task of nationalizing and modernizing Britain's antiquated coal pits. It will be a pleasure. Minister Shinwell belongs in Minister of Health Bevan's left wing. He is ruthless, knowledgeable, fearless, dour. In Parliament, he has boxed the ears of an M.P. whose opinions he disliked. He hopes to head the Labor Party some...
With iron logic, the declaration also described the only alternative: invasion and "the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland." All in all, the terms added up to a hard peace but not to a ruthless one. In population, living standards, sovereignty and trade, the Japan they envisioned would not be inferior to the Japan of two generations...
...small group of men who knew less about show business than fur dealing (Marcus Loew), jewelry merchandizing (Lewis J. Selznick), glove selling (Samuel Goldwyn), cloth sponging (William Fox), railroad engineering (Sam Warner), were struggling among hundreds of others "from Saturday night to Saturday night" in an atmosphere of "ruthless conflict, chicane, daring, and genius...
...Ruthless Efficiency. Oliver Lyttelton last week faced at least part of this issue. As he swept like a new broom into the Board of Trade, he declared: "If we had to live mainly on the indigenous resources of this country we should perhaps be able to support 15 million and not 45 million people. . . . Let us see that we get the labor and the materials. Let us see that they are used in a farsighted and ruthless way to bring our industries to the highest state of efficiency...