Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment, the Sacred Cow landed on Kansas City's Fairfax Airport, the atmosphere had been warm with easy-going friendliness. Nothing tickled the President more than the greeting of one overalled crony: "You look fine. You're just the old farmer boy like you always...
...thought it over, going from warm to hot. Last week he took the action which hurled his union into the biggest open fight it has had yet. He resigned from "that phony C.M.U...
...cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering of gas pressure...
...Enemy of Dogs. All his life he gloated over soft, warm beds. He was afraid of dogs-he thought they saw through the disguise of his prosperity. And though he suffered occasional grandiose outbursts of generosity, he hoarded his money with fierce cunning. Then in the crash of 1929 he lost it all ($250,000). Broke, aging, he headed back to Hollywood. He did not reach the zenith of his motion picture career without battles. He distrusted directors. He had no faith in writers (although he occasionally tried to steal their lines) and wanted to do his own stories...
...through an economic wringer. Furriers made the most of the easy-money period during the war and immediately afterwards. When OPA controls came off, prices of luxury furs doubled; medium-priced furs went up 50%. The buying rush has come to an abrupt end because of 1) the unseasonable warm weather, 2) fur imports from abroad, and 3) buyers' resistance to the high prices...