Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
...averages failed to break through that "floor," bulls and chartists thought the market would bounce up. If it did go through, bears thought it might slide on down to the "floor" below-i.e., the 1945 low mark...
...saying ever since the Supreme Court decision, namely, that any manufacturer could absorb freight charges to meet a competitor's prices at distant points so long as there was no conspiracy to fix prices. What FTC had objected to was collusive freight absorption. Much of the confusion, he thought, had been caused not so much by the decision as by those who wanted to pressure Congress into legalizing basing points...
Charlie Wilson knew that the power industry had "made mistakes, it has been shortsighted . . ." But he thought it had also done a bang-up job - though it would have to do a still better one. To meet the increasing demands for power, he said, the industry should spend $1 billion a year on expansion. He warned that power-men should not be lulled into thinking that long-term demands would lessen just because business had started to slip off. Said he: The current slide in business might last until the second quarter of next year...
...electric men thought that the Government's argument for more public power projects was based largely on spotty power shortages; the overall shortage was about licked. The institute estimated that this year's margin of reserve capacity should be 9.7%, or nearly double last year's reserve. But the U.S. would not have the 15% margin of reserve capacity it needs until...