Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First there was able, boot-tough Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces. With ever more & more men to feed, General Somervell demanded more & more food. The Army, which already feeds part of the French and Italian armies, prisoners of war, etc., recently added 300,000 liberated Philippine Scouts to its chow line. General Somervell was out for all he needed, and he needed...
...seemed undisturbed 22 months ago when he and Bove were charged with extorting $420,000 from contractors building New York City's 85-mile Delaware Aqueduct. Their attorneys delayed the case for months. When they finally went on trial in Manhattan this month, Joe Fay stayed tough, cold and collected...
...high Soviet official Otto Kuusinen (who stayed in Russia). Hertta Kuusinen's instrument was that familiar Communist device, a Democratic Front-composed in Finland of Communists, small farmers and a splinter of the old Social Democratic Party, once the country's biggest. Chief anti-Russian was tough Väinö Tanner, leader of the orthodox Social Democrats...
...40th Division landed on Panay, westernmost of the Visayas group. MacArthur claimed complete surprise at the beachhead, and the Yanks speedily drove to within ten miles of Iloile, Panay's big port and fifth largest Philippine city. But mountainous Panay, from which Jap aircraft menaced shipping, could be tough to clean out; the Japs may have 5,000 troops there...
Last week, as the recurrent seriousness of the food situation hit home once again (see U.S. AT WAR), grain shippers and elevator operators deluged the Office of Defense Transportation with appeals for help. Gist of the appeals: ODT should get tough and force Eastern railroads to return thousands of cars belonging to Western railroads. As the appeal was made, such grain-hauling roads as the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific had only a little over half of their own cars on their lines...