Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under the same percentage formula, building tradesmen got a 22½?-an-hour increase, he said. What was fair about that? Soon, well warmed up, Murray was speaking of Miami-and-Mex-ico-tanned executives daring to suggest that steelworkers are "getting too much money." He talked of the "wise men, fat men, men who are enjoying...
...himself on record for Term IV. Said Missouri's able Harry S. Truman (sometimes mentioned for the Vice Presidency) : "The faults [in the Administration's war planning] are insignificant in comparison with the great achievements that have resulted. I think the country realizes that we have wise and experienced leadership. And I am further convinced that this leadership will be continued until the job at hand is completed...
Though Carter men were coy, oil-wise Oklahomans were sure that the Cottingham was a "commercial" well, i.e., could produce enough oil to recoup lifting costs and then some, though not necessarily enough to pay off the $200,000-plus drilling costs. And Oklahoma's Ickes-feuding Senator Edward H. Moore, home to help out fellow Republicans in this week's Congressional election, was quick to say the Cottingham showed what "American free enterprise" could do, without any newfangled Government pipelines in far-off Arabia...
...wise and witty pedant: a lover of Greek verses, a professor of rhetoric, a biographer of Beethoven. He was the rotund trencherman: in the piping days of peace, he lunched on soup, a couple of trout, a partridge, vegetables, dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States...
This mistake was not repeated. Wise Joe Eastman's orders were: 1) no cars loaded until the consignee's sidings can receive them; 2) load cars heavier. Proof that his ideas were sound came in the 115% increase in freight ton-miles over 1939-still there is no serious car shortage...