Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew at that moment what he was going to do about the strike and about the threat of a resumed coal strike. For weeks he had done everything he had believed it was possible to do, short of getting sore, tough and militant. But he still kept...
Hard Case. In London, burglars broke into Cox and Danks, Ltd., took only small change, chalked a disgusted message on the safe: "Too tough to open...
...understand and report. Most newspaper reporters tried to tell the story coherently, and did a good job with contradictory testimony that virtually defied untangling in the time they had to do it. But for the man who knew only what he read daily in the papers, it was tough going...
...child was the first born in the big D.P. camp in Seoul, Korea, and the parents called it Mi Hua (Little Flower) in honor of UNRRA's tough and kind-hearted boss. But 7,000 miles away, in Washington, Little Flower LaGuardia last week faced more headaches than honors...
...work for General Motors' subsidiary, Yellow Truck, as comptroller, moved up fast. In 1933, he became board chairman of North American Aviation, eventually landed in a G.M. vice presidential chair. In 1942, G.M.'s brown-haired boy was elected president of Bendix, controlled by G.M. By taking tough radar and radio contracts that other companies did not want, he pushed Bendix's annual gross up from $40,000,000 to nearly $1 billion. He still found time to play golf, fly his own plane, and pitch hay on his ten-acre farm near Detroit. With Ernie Breech...