Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican machine, Willkie simply does not exist. In 1940, Ohio's professional Republicans had their own man in Senator Taft. Now they have Governor Bricker. And this time they think they have a winner. Ohio is sewed up tight for Bricker; right now Willkie couldn't swing a precinct committeeman. . . . The independent organization that fought for Willkie in 1940 is dead...
...hears another soldier spilling secrets over a beer, he hands the miscreant a cross and walks away. "The theory being," said Lieut. Colonel C. B. Wales, the post executive officer, "if he walks up to him and tells him to shut up, the fellow might take a swing at the fellow who tells him to pipe down. With the cross, by the time he turns it over and reads the printing the lad who handed it to him will be out of the play...
...only thing that really pains Bill and Jack now is the same headache that plagues many a war contractor, big or small: business is so enormous that their working capital is almost nonexistent. Under negotiation this week is a $2,500,000 bank loan to help E. & M. swing its necessarily swollen inventories. The only other time Bill and Jack ever went to the banks was in 1940, when they took out a 90-day $30,000 loan. Now they are doing so much with so little that, if the war ended tomorrow, they would have only enough cash...
...Saturday night in St. Johns. The barn dance was in full swing down in the war-built Knights of Columbus recreation center. About 500 men & women, many of them Canadian sailors, soldiers and flyers, were packed into the wooden...
...this scene came balding, chunky, nervous-quick Robert Wilson Wolcott, 50, who took a swing in the Navy and Bethlehem Steel, worked up to be Lukens' president six years after he mar ried a Huston girl. As the big boss Wolcott began to: 1) specialize in oversized hot rolled plates, 2) set up fabricating subsidiaries to give Lukens a broader market. Both schemes clicked and the huge 206-in. mill was soon thundering out big plates for merchant ships, machine tools, railroad equipment, etc., the fabricating divisions prospered on special castings, all-welded cylinder blocks...