Word: unyieldingness
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To Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, digging into a job he knows and loves, this is pretty near heaven. But it is not heaven. In heaven there would be no autograph hunters, newspaper reporters and jumping-jack photographers lurking around the corners. There would be no cranks, columnists and newshawks to...
The years went by, and the mother in Cambridge continued to be freer, more adventurous than her daughter in New Haven, and--in Santayana's phrase--to have "a single eye for the truth." Perhaps if Yale had lacked proper respect, she might have lifted her unyielding nose and branded...
Last December, however, a Parliament-inspired committee of inquiry headed by Lord Cadman began poking into Imperial's affairs. Few months later it decided the company was defective in management, intolerant of suggestion, unyielding in negotiation. It recommended complete reorganization.
From Dec. 1 to mid-February the committee held 30 meetings, heard 50 witnesses, devoted most of its time and most of its 85-page report to Imperial Airways Ltd. Excerpt: "There is not today a medium sized airliner of British construction comparable to the leading foreign types. Foreign manufacturers...
Under Steel's leadership the whole stockmarket advanced to new Recovery highs, ending the week at levels abreast of 1931. In its unyielding attitude toward Labor, U. S. Steel has always been an inspiration to anti-union executives, not only in the rest of the steel industry but in...