Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genial, moonfaced, pug-nosed, tireless ball-of-fire named Lou Russell Maxon, just turned 28, set up his own advertising agency (Maxon, Inc.) in Detroit. One by one, Adman Maxon bagged such big accounts as General Electric, Heinz "57 varieties," Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Gillette Safety Razor, by last year had a dozen whose total billing (about $9,000,000) was enough to rank Maxon, Inc. in the first flight of U. S. agencies...
Levelheaded, unassuming, tireless, Dr. Reinhardt thinks she has done nothing out of the ordinary. "The reason I'm not interesting," says she, "is that everything comes naturally to me. I've faced no great crises or conversion religiously [her mother was a Quaker]. To me religion is a part of living. And it's the only way I know to remove egotism...
...Empire had a man of valor at her helm. In Britain's blackest night since the Spanish Armada lay off her coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week: I-Tuesday he drafted England's No. 2 hustler, Lord Beaverbrook, to head...
...else Blitzkrieg would affect U. S. business no man could say. Scandinavian trade is a complicated network which taps world ports from the Thames to the Weddell Sea, from Hammerfest to Antarctica. The tireless tramps of Norway, No. 4 world seafarer, carry the bulk of Cuban sugar shipments to the U. S., play a bigger part in Philippines-U. S. traffic than the ships of any nation. South America, with an export balance of $20-25,000,000 annually to Scandinavia, has often used Scandinavian proceeds to buy U. S. goods. Great Britain got 50% of her bacon and eggs...
...volume is an analysis of three decades (1905-35) of U. S. living. Mr. Cohn got his material from a book which he recognizes as one of the most valuable and beautiful of U. S. documents: the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. The materials he handles are incorruptibly good, but his tireless facetiousness is tiresome. Fair enough as a 579-page guidebook and commentary, The Good Old Days is not in the same class with any one issue of the catalogue itself...