Word: hardheadedness
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Domestic Front. Franklin Roosevelt might have preferred to keep his eyes turned east all last week. He could not. On the home front, long neglected, another kind of crisis clamored for attention. Food shortages were a national bellyache. Meat and butter rationing had begun. Farmers begged and pleaded for help...
U.S. business last week got a chance to take a hardheaded look at what the war is doing to its No. 1 heavy industry-steel. What it saw would have startled stanch private capitalists of the brand of the elder Morgan or Judge Gary.
"Our surplus will be far greater than ever within a few years after this war comes to an end. We can be decently human and really hardheaded if we exchange our post-war surplus for goods, for peace and for improving the standards of living of so-called backward peoples...
But Jimmy Byrnes, who combines his liberalism with hardheaded native conservatism and has friends on both sides of the political railroad tracks, had an unpublicized job that was even bigger. On the home front he was rapidly becoming assistant president, with a clear hand to smooth ruffled party tempers, to...
"Young men who are doing our fighting are, to a surprising extent, thinking about the war's end ... in terms of what kind of a world we shall have after peace comes. They are thinking realistically. . . . The politician who preaches 'normalcy' at the end of this war...