Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kuroki is a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a qualified turret gunner in B-24 Liberator bombers, veteran of 30 heavy bombing missions against the enemy, survivor of the ruthless, costly raid on the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania, winner of two Distinguished Flying Crosses, wearer of the coveted Air Medal with four oakleaf clusters...
...extinguished by force." They had lost prestige, social position, ideals-"tossed this way and that way," wrote one of them, "just for the sake of our daily bread; gathering men about us and playing soldiers with them; brawling and drinking, roaring and smashing windows-destroying and shattering . . . ruthless and inexorably hard...
Labels and Ratholes. Cummings' streamlining is fast and ruthless. He shocks fuddy-duddies in the trade. When he took over Sprague, Warner he found that it was staggering along with some 50,000 descriptive labels because of the traditional practice of buying up trade names when wholesale grocers go out of business, and keeping the names. He dumped all but some 5,000 fast-moving items. Other profit-losing ratholes were plugged, and Sprague, Warner-Kenny made $311,465 in profits last year on its gross of $32,000,000, a good return for the low-profit but quick...
Sirs: . . . Anybody BUT Bolshevist Stalin whose ruthless cruelties, despite the fine . . . fighting of his peoples, are equaled only by those of Hitler...
Priorities Up. Professor Speer took power as Germany's overall production czar on Sept. 2. Earlier, he had handled munitions alone. For both jobs he has cut through economic and manufacturing routine, generally managed to deliver what the armed forces demanded, and pushed through a ruthless concentration and conversion of industry to war work...