Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Washington's war planners were talking a lot tougher, e.g., by mid-1951 automobile production might be cut back as much as 50%, television production as much if not more. But the Washington planners were still putting the cart before the horse. Even in a state of full mobilization there is little sense in cutting back civilian production until actual war orders are issued. Premature cutbacks will merely cause layoffs and the closing of plants and in the end, U.S. production will be hurt more than helped. Once war orders go out in big enough volume, civilian...
With six weeks of 1950 racing to go, 20-year-old Jockey Culmone had one factor in his favor: at Hollywood Park, where most of the top stables and jockeys are now located, Willie has a lot tougher competition to beat than Joe. Nothing seems to worry 19-year-old Willie Shoemaker less. Says he with a shrug: "If I win at the end of the year, swell...
...Tougher orders were in the works. Over the protests of the building industry, NPA was drawing up orders to limit construction of such "frivolous" enterprises as dance halls, nightclubs, race tracks and bowling alleys. The order, it was estimated, would save $500 million worth of steel, cement and other construction materials a year...
...undefeated soccer teams will be trying to keep their slates clean this been as the Crimson meets Army on the Birdness School field. Paced by four linemen from last year's unbeaten Plebe eleven, the Cadets should be tougher than last season when they lost...
EDITORIAL, MAY 2, 1949: "Cambridge . . . streets could be annoying competition for the overnight parking trade but for one pleasantly coincidental fact; the City forbids parking on them . . . the no parking ordinance makes fine sense for the men who own garages; the people who own cars find it tougher to understand...