Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owing to a faulty oil gauge on the plane, we put down unexpectedly at the Prescott, Ariz, airport and unexpectedly found 1) a restaurant serving my kind of ham & eggs, and 2) a subscriber with a new angle on TIME. He maintains that it is a very tough magazine...
...McCone himself spent 15 years working for Consolidated Steel Corp. He left in J937 to join the Six Companies. During the war, he normally put in seven 15-hour days a week running Calship along with Bechtel-McCone's B-29 outfitting plant in Birmingham, Ala. His tough formula: set production goals higher than anyone thought could be met, then make sure they were...
Guatemala's Arévalo government also recently introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...
Colonel Guy T. Viskniskki is celebrated as a newspaper doctor, an efficiency expert. He is tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...
...tour on a winner-take-all basis, but that Don couldn't see it. (The Budge version: Budge offered to split the profits 70-30 but Bobby preferred 60-40 because he "doesn't want to put his money where his mouth is.")* "It must be tough for Don," says Bobby sympathetically, "trying to get back...