Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tough Job. Now Banker Snyder would find himself in a hurly-burly world of Washington compromise-of giving & taking and influencing people-at a time when the U.S. was moving into the delicate period of reconversion. Already the civilian side of OWMR was embroiled in a rough-&-tough battle with the military; OWMR felt that Army & Navy were holding too tightly to high production schedules, that the civilian economy should get a better break...
...From then on, Bill Jeffers' career reads like the biography of most railroaders, who miss few rungs on their way up the gritty ladder. He was a switchman, yardmaster, trainmaster, division superintendent, general manager and assistant to the president. In the tough, hard-working game of railroading he was tougher than anyone else, and worked harder. If his authority was questioned, he frequently settled the argument with his iron fist. Once, months after the event, he decided that a Chicago hotel manager had insulted Mrs. Jeffers. Bill Jeffers walked into the hotel and floored...
Wall Street long ago got acclimated to the oratorical williwaws blowing north from Congress. But last week, even Wall Streeters' tough ears tingled. Oklahoma's bulldog-jawed Democrat Lyle Boren, head of a sub-committee probing the Holding Company Act, had unearthed an amazing "conspiracy" on the part of some of Wall Street's staidest investment bankers and financiers. The plot, said he, was to socialize the $18 billion U.S. electric utility industry and make "many billions" in the process...
...Works Co.), of Eindhoven. Back of North American Philips are $250 million in assets, brains, familiarity with cartel pricing agreements and patent pools that in a generation made Philips of Eindhoven virtual master of Europe's radio and light-bulb industry. N.A.P., born in 1942, is already a tough baby...
...Pyle readers. Ernie's film G.I.s, played with no gallantry and with great conviction, come through as vividly as they did in his dispatches. There are the Captain himself (Robert Mitchum), who leads his men to death in defeat and victory, hating every minute of it; rough, tough Sergeant Warnicki (Freddie Steele), who cracks up when he finally hears his baby's voice on a record from home; Private Dondaro (Wally Cassell), who impartially divides his time between chasing Germans and chasing skirts...