Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feed, warm and hold Berlin. That crucial question General Clay answered last week with a clear yes. He said he was sure that the airlift could not only provide Western Berlin with its necessities but sustain its economic life at pre-blockade level. With the possible exception of two tough winter months, he was convinced that "Operation Vittles" could be extended to flying in raw materials and flying out finished products for Western Berlin's industry...
Chester Bowles, onetime OPAdministrator, now Democratic candidate for governor of Connecticut, considered the rigors of practical politics: "This is tough and rugged. I have been called everything from 'millionaire yachtsman tool of Wall Street' to 'Communist...
Jawbreaker. Rats, which eat $2 billion worth of U.S. food and other property annually, can't get through a tough new low-cost plywood ("Protekwood") developed by the U.S. Plywood Corp. The cost (8½? a sq. ft.), said U.S. Plywood, makes Protekwood feasible for rat-proofing on farms and other places where concrete, sheet metal or wire mesh would be too expensive...
...were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products, shutting down his money-losing sidelines. Few textile men thought that a mere Senate committee would budge tough Roy Little...
There is nothing in this show that cannot be found in most tough-mug movies-and nothing that isn't passably entertaining, watched through half-closed eyes...