Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week of the Sicilian invasion, American troops had met with spectacular success: the weapons and men of the Axis seemed to be no match for the full weight of the vast new Allied military machine. The worried American fathers and mothers took heart; first reports of U.S. casualties sounded wonderfully small. In the first week of the invasion, the Associated Press reported, fewer than 100 men were wounded so badly they had to be flown back to North Africa...
...significant corollary was Willkie's new success with the professionals; the man who knew few Republican bigwigs in 1940 is now nearly ready to firstname most G.O.P. ward heelers. For Wendell Willkie-though the fact is not yet realized-is no longer the great amateur of U.S. politics. His correspondence, much of it with "practical" GOPoliticians, is still enormous (2,500 letters a week). In the last six months he has visited 16 States, meeting State and city Republican leaders wherever he went, shaking their hands, inviting them to talk frankly, bluntly. He says to them, in effect...
...given the job of planning the Moroccan landings. He had to design armored force landings, organize transport divisions and train 3,000 amphibious boat crews. He had to send his huge force across the Atlantic and still have it rendezvous at the exact time for the landings. His success brought him this, the biggest job of his life...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra to attend the opening concert ad helped fill the first floor of Sanders, but future concerts (of this series, in which they will take part August-15.16) will probably have to be better attended by the Cambridge public if these concerts are to be a financial success...
Bankers criticized Mr. Morgenthau furiously for his "fetish of 2%," arguing that the offering would have been a success if it had consisted of 2¼% bonds of 12 to 14 years maturity. But Mr. Morgenthau, breathing heavily, stuck to his old cheap-money theory, fighting the war boom as he had fought the depression. His program "to finance this war in the seven-to-ten-year range at 2%" was denounced as "stubborn amateurishness." His reason (labeled as "eyewash"): "to save this and future generations many millions of dollars on the public debt...