Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco Gastrointestinal Specialist Dr. Felix Cunha charted the incidence of stomach ailments against the Dow-Jones average. Result: a rough X, showing that when business goes down, businessmen's stomach troubles go up. Said Business Week: "Logical as that thesis is, though, we'd like to work on the reverse of it-that when businessmen get stomach trouble, business recedes...
...whole problem of war orders in 1940, most U. S. manufacturers reacted patriotically but with caution. The Nye Committee was too fresh in their memo ries to give them any stomach for the munitions-makers role. The result was an apparent lack of ardor in the way industry went after war business. But with that coolheaded attitude, coolheaded William S. Knudsen was equipped to deal...
Samuel T. Peace, one of Jeb Stuart's cavalry men, was the oldest of six brothers in the Civil War. His next brother, A. D. Peace, was shot in the shoulder and head. His next brother, A. S. Peace, was shot through the stomach. His next brother, Ira J. Peace, was killed at Gettysburg. His next brother, George K. Peace, had his leg shot off. His next brother, J. Wesley Peace, had his little toe shot off. All in war. Do you blame the Peaces for moving out of Peaceburg when the Army moved...
From what followed, two things were clear: 1) the U. S. manufacturer is anxious to do his duty, but 2) he has no stomach for war economics. Significant were the results of an Elmo Roper survey of public opinion for N. A. M.: only 10% of the U. S. believes that business is driving the country towards war (only 1% believes the President is doing so). Still fearful of future Nye investigations, still leery of munitions-making, many NAMembers took satisfaction in this low figure...
...student body, a few exist who have been born with snowshoe feet or a mountain goat nostalgia for high places. At Harvard these select silver spooners have already formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...