Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy's pious mother christened him Joseph, after the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus...
...know the issue; it is to be or not to be. But we also know that Germany will live. For England is already blockaded. The country that wants to starve us is itself shut up like a mouse in a trap. We want to be hard in this war. We are going to forget the arch-evil, our good nature, and will be hard and relentless in battling for our demands...
...building caucus room, one day last week, sat lean, grey Harold Stanley. Head of Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., No. 1 U. S. investment house, he had gone to Washington to be questioned by the Temporary National Economic Committee in its inquiry into investment banking. Earlier the committee had heard hard-boiled Charles E. Mitchell, onetime head of Manhattan's National City Bank, later tried and acquitted of charges of income tax evasion (but forced to settle a Government lien for $1,384,222, taxes and penalties), who is now board chairman of Blyth & Co., Inc. It had also heard...
Meanwhile, big oil companies put up too many gasoline stations, and price cutting took so much of the profit out of gasoline retailing that even a cooperative found it hard to save much in the spread between the wholesale and retail prices of gasoline. So, last year, Cowden got his board of directors to vote for building a co-op refinery. This week, near bleak little Phillipsburg on the Kansas prairies, the new $750,000 plant is making its first run of gasoline. Middle-sized as refineries go, it will supply 40% of C. C. A.'s needs...