Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only seven to Franklin Roosevelt for executive action. But among these seven were its key decisions. As long as labor, in the person of John L. Lewis, or management, notably Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum, was able to defy it, the board could command no respect, achieve no final success in holding down wages...
...Europe a great battle is nearing its climax. The combined forces of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth Air Force are in head-on collision with the bulk of Germany's fighter-plane strength. The issue may be decided in the next month. On it may depend: 1) success or failure of an Allied invasion; 2) the answer to the question: Can Germany be bombed...
Harvard's Philosopher George Santayana once put his finger on Phelps's success: "You always bring with you a sort of Gulf Stream of warmth and kindness...
Over them all hovered the spirit of Hambletonian, progenitor of champions. Never a flashy winner, Hambletonian (1849-76) broke no records. But his blazing spirit and his success as a sire made him a harness immortal. Ninety-five per cent of top trotters today trace their blood to him through at least one line. Standard breds, from Hambletonian down, are still the only purely U.S. contribution to the sporting horse, and to a sport where age as well as youth is served...
...nerve destruction. But Dr. Miland Knapp of Minneapolis, ardent Kenny advocate, has recently raised a new hope. He found that use of the drug prostigmine together with the Kenny method hastened recovery by reduction of muscle spasm and incoordination. Dr. Russell Plato Schwartz of Rochester, N.Y., has had unusual success in preliminary trials with a new drug extracted from the South American erythrina bean...