Word: acumen
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...serve his route. In contrast, there is little to be said against boys acting as carriers of afternoon papers in residential districts, and much in favor of it. They sacrifice a couple of hours of play time every after noon, but they learn punctuality, dependability, business acumen, thrift. Usually they are well supervised by their employers. Thus: the Des Moines Register & Tribune cooperates with parents, awards college scholarships to its best boys...
...bond conversion rate when the monetary exchange was above $4.85 was to stop the decline of the dollar and give it an upward fillip. Simultaneously the recent Wall Street boom, partly induced by a falling dollar, collapsed (see p. 45). On the theory that Chancellor Chamberlain's fiscal acumen is very great indeed, he was credited with a deliberate and successful move to start sterling downhill...
...Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were at once suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long box with Easter lilies sticking out from one end; of other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were these the lads to seek an appetizer? With great acumen the police searched the waters of the Charles River Basin, apparently under the impression that the Sacred Cod had transformed himself into a flying fish and gone for a swim...
Unfortunately, the tradesmen of Boston took over the problem where the law-givers had ceased, handling it with approximately the same acumen. Near beer was sold to trusting customers, who believed they were actually quenching their alcoholic thirsts; a barrel of the beverage was, and is sold by the glass at a hundred per cent profit. While the tax imposed is high, the profits reaped by retailers and brewers are higher, and the people, willing to pay any sum at first, are bearing the burden...
...seized in Manchoukuo real estate, palaces and stocks of opium worth $10,000,000 belonging to General Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last week. Thus, if General Tang sides with Japan, the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will render his treasure particularly safe. If on the contrary he sides with China, the Japanese will scarcely dare...