Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another World War airman, Bob Lovett kept up with flying after he had left the service. Until the pressure of life in Wall Street got too strong, he flew his own plane, still gets his hands on a stick occasionally. As a director of Union Pacific Railroad he made a thorough study of air transportation. As a faithful traveler to Europe (two months each year on business trips) he satisfied his airman's curiosity by seeing all that was to be seen. What he saw in Germany froze him to the marrow...
...them is a piece of hollow bamboo filled with a dynamite stick, which they catapult over the trees. The red-necks call them 'Casey's cookie.' Another is a small, two-wheeled, self-propelled tank, with armored plating up front to protect the machine-gunner. The engineers say it will get where a tank won't, and they call it 'Casey's chariot...
...shade chastened was Radio Writer Arch Oboler (TIME, March 17) after a week in which even Variety had taken a stick to him as Radio...
Since Army & Navy are taking a huge chunk of all farmers' produce, Messrs. Roosevelt & Wickard had a pretty big price stick after all. A disgusted Congress could still vote more farm subsidies and dare the President to veto them. But as House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Steagall ruefully put it, "there's nothing in the bill that can repeal the right of free speech"-and a Roosevelt crack is still good for a break in the market...
...Guard brokers still think of Merrill Lynch as a lucky upstart, resent its flashy merchandising methods, stick to their traditions of not publishing any annual reports at all. But none of them sneered at M.L.'s profit figures...