The business survival skills of the 1930s quickly gave way to a new form of leadership that tested the limit of America's ingenuity, productivity, and compassion.
I would say figurative language since there is a simile being used when using "like" to compare the beard and hair to seaweed.
CTRL+C = copy
CTRL+V = paste
DELETE = DELETE highlighted text.
If you copy text, and highlight the text you want to replace on word, then paste it, it will replace it.
using your phone as a calculator