Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polished Diamond. Eric Johnston may well be the White Knight of U.S. Business. His critics find him just a little too good to be true: too handsome, too smooth, too patently on the make. Like other goodwilling gospelers of "cooperation" he dodges-or does not see-fundamental differences of opinion. In a New York Times Hall debate last week between Johnston and U.A.W.-C.I.O.'s shrewd ideologue, Walter Reuther of Detroit, Reuther proposed that Government continue to regiment business and labor in peace as in war, by a Peace Production Board. Johnston, intent on his gospel of cooperation, failed...
...problem for many years, the new method involves a powdered resin called Stabinol. The powder is spread on the soil, a few pounds per square yard; then it is harrowed in six inches deep and the soil is packed hard with a steam roller. The result is a smooth, dry surface that sheds water like a duck's back. It is good for tennis courts, athletic fields, earth dams-and especially for roads. The Army has already begun to use it for roads and airfields...
...months the world-straddling empire of Henry Ford has quivered and groaned like a leviathan with acute indigestion. Cause of the upheavals has been the rival ambitions of the empire's two powerful princes: tough Director Harry Bennett and smooth Production Boss Charles E. Sorensen. Last week, the empire had its biggest convulsion...
News is the G.I.s' favorite radio item-and they get plenty of it. There are no commentators, experts, keyholers, just the cold facts. The Germans, for instance, do not "counterattack," they "advance." Says Baruch: "You can't eyewash the boys or smooth anything over; they're too close...
...Americas, he immediately struck out for Marine Base, Quantico. Va., where he was in charge of a squad of Peruvian soldiers working at the airfield there. After eight months in the South, he was ordered to NSCS, where he is now sweating it out over rough rolls, smooth rolls, and TPA's with the rest of us. Not a pilot, he specializes in aviation supply...