Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well-behaved and businesslike-some already have incomes running into five figures-they had little time for sightseeing or the movies. Many made a beeline for the American Royal Livestock Show, which ran concurrently with the F.F.A. convention. Others stuck to the convention agenda, listened to speeches by Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson and British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, and frolicked at a big barn-warming party, where they shucked corn and sweatily swung their partners in old-fashioned square dances...
...claimed they wouldn't mind any amount of grime for a good job. They were sent to a factory in Lowell which offered quick advancement. The promotions were not forthcoming at the end of the week, but it didn't make any difference since none of the seven had stuck it out that long...
Chuck Luckman nevertheless stuck to his guns. Out of his volunteer headquarters, which had spread down one side of an entire corridor in the old State Department building, his aides pumped out a steady stream of suggestions, advice, recipes, and bales of statistics (one slice of bread saved per person each day means seven million 1-lb. loaves a day for Europe). He flatly turned down any idea of legal controls...
Soon after his graduation in 1913, he was a Little Man off Campus-an efficiency engineer in nearby Oakland. It wasn't half as much fun. Remembering his father's advice, Bob Sproul stuck it out only a year-long enough to marry the girl at the next desk (says he: "I'm the victim of propinquity"). When the university cashier absconded, creating a deficit and a vacancy, Bob Sproul joyfully went back to college. He has been there ever since...
...governmental control, voluntarily took a small step towards slowing down speculation. The Chicago Board of Trade ordered margins increased on a sliding scale. For every 10?-a-bushel increase in the price of grain futures, margins must, in effect, be increased an additional 5?. But the Board of Trade stuck to its contention that Government buying of grain for export was chiefly to blame for food prices, and not speculation...