Word: greeding
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...wage ceilings went into a new battle phase. The new battle cry: "Get your cut now, boys." Some feared that the Administration had become completely incapable of handling the major economic problem of war. On the other side, some Administration prophets saw ruin ahead, brought on by the greed of selfish pressure groups...
...scrapped-after repeated warnings to National Bronze that defective parts would kill U.S. flyers-the company patched up the parts, changed the serial numbers and shipped them back to Packard as new parts. Some of the castings were so weak they fell apart when touched. The trial brought out greed as the reason for the plot: National Bronze got $270 a Ib. for accepted castings v. only 15? a Ib. for those scrapped...
...sermon, any statesman a goal, any thinker a philosophy, they (and all the rest of us) have before us the highest purpose of all in leading the inevitable fight against the last barrier that separates us from true universal brotherhood. Not nationalism itself, but its breeding ground -ignorance, stupidity, greed, traditionalism -are the enemies of the people...
Imbued with a desire to be a "small, pale crusader" against greed and selfishness, she landed a job in 1934 with the crusading NRA, soon bossed it in New York. To settle labor disputes, the biggest part of her job, she developed a technique of mowing down disputants with a machine-gun delivery of tough, sensible talk, backed up with hair-trigger thinking and many a trick learned in Tammany politics. Sample: while temporarily serving as assistant WPA director for New York, she was hemmed in in her office one day by a "lie-down" strike of dissatisfied employes...
...waning faith in human nature. Coarse rice, a piece of pickle, vegetable soup and tepid water were the daily fare, but Bishop Heaslett had the privilege of having food sent in from a nearby restaurant. He shared this with his cellmates, noting that there was "neither coarseness nor apparent greed among them...