Word: hardheadedness
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Coming from anyone else, such a prophecy might well have made the institute's hardheaded members blow a fuse in surprise. But as president of the $250 million Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., bustling, ruddy-faced Elmer Lindseth, 48, has made a habit of winning big bets on an expanding...
Last week, hardfisted, hardheaded old Fred Dumaine disdainfully spat on the hot fire stirred up under him at the New Haven's annual meeting. Stockholders were asked to approve the purchase of the outstanding 5% debenture bonds of the long-bankrupt Boston & Providence Railroad Corp. for $3,250,000...
Stu Symington, popular in Congress, was a cinch to be confirmed in his new job. A skilled persuader, he will then have to cajole the board's members (the Secretaries of State, Defense, Treasury, Commerce, Interior, Agriculture and Labor), the President, the Congress and the U.S. people into hardheaded...
The uncertainty and negation were over. Last week, in the most important speech he has made since he took office, Secretary of State Acheson said firmly that the U.S. was intending no new appeal to Russia- and explained why. In doing so,Acheson sought to quiet those Americans who wanted...
Last week, nobody cried "nepotism" when Edgar Eugene Rand, 44, the founder's eldest son, moved up to the company's presidency. Like his father, husky Ed Rand was a poker-playing, hardheaded businessman who had never been coddled. He was sent to public school, later prepped at...