Word: acumen
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...violet ray treatment. Whether other companies will find such a process necessary in order to keep their tobacco of equal standard is not yet disclosed. American Tobacco's new advertising will be signed testimonials from the greatest tycoons. They will not endorse Luckies, but will praise the business acumen and scientific leadership which led American Tobacco to its great violet ray discovery. In each testimonial the inference will be clear that the endorser's own business possesses qualities comparable to American Tobacco's, is a leader...
...ectogenetic methods, leaving governments free to design their subjects, women free to run the governments. The higher reaches of statecraft, however, and of the arts as well, will still be the province of males, who will relax in foxhunting and horse-racing, sports which the Earl, with true British acumen, finds will continue. War unfortunately will persist, but in a more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine is devised, airplanes will supersede all other vehicles, decentralizing all activities, including industry?and here the Earl makes several bows to Henry Ford. The last...
...departure from G. P. Putnam & Sons of George Palmer Putnam was almost as newsworthy as the deal itself. In the past decade he has made himself conspicuous on the publishing scene. He is a man with the dangerous combination of literary ability, business acumen, energy. From him the story of his life is a well and probably oft told tale. Eastern-bred, he went to the University of California for his health. He might not say that if he were not so impressively healthy today. After a brief early connection with G. P. Putnam's Sons, he went...
...pianist, Ferdie Grofe, a brilliant technical musician, helped him greatly toward fame by his skilful arrangements of current songs. Whiteman himself can tell little about a composition from reading it; he puts in most of his own touches in re hearsal. Famed in the trade for his busi ness acumen, he hires the best and most expensive players, keeps them in a good humor. He paid his former saxophonist, Ross Gorman, $50,000 a year. His own earnings are about $500,000 a year. He likes striped ties and custard, owns a ranch near Denver, likes to wear...
...necessary after that hour as before. For the man who has ever been taken ill in the middle of the night and been obliged to reel to the nearest public phone to call a doctor, no further argument is necessary. Then the University, with its usual business acumen and perspicacity, charges for ordinary calls in these buildings on a time basis. The shock of this discovery which comes with the first phone bill is nearly as great to the nervous system as to the bank account...