Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it threatens to block the way for Allied armies, a choice must be made again. When the choice is made, Sükrü Saracoglu will probably present it to the world. Standing between grim, retiring President Ismet Inönü, Turkey's unquestioned leader, and brilliant, chronically ill Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, Saracoglu is their front to other nations' statesmen...
German fighter pilots can, and have, put up a fierce and brilliant defense. But the Luftwaffe has not been able to make the Allied offensive so costly that it must be abandoned. Failing this, the defense is bound to be futile: no defense, ground or air, can consistently keep a strong and determined bombing force from reaching its targets...
Bernie Baruch will not be such a miracle man. No one could be. But that is the kind of confidence, amounting to a fervent faith, that the U.S. has learned to place in Bernie Baruch, multimillionaire stock speculator, brilliant generalissimo of the World War I Industries Board, adviser to five Presidents, and a private citizen who has been a public servant for a quarter of a century...
...record, in a battle of economies uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain...
...live to see his patient, advanced intelligence vindicated above the English Channel. Not even when his planes were winning Schneider Trophies (they won four) did England's financiers realize his full value. Not even after his eye-opening visit to Germany in 1935 and his meeting with the brilliant Willy Messerschmitt would the British Government lend him its ear. It was an "eccentric" individualist, Lady Houston, who finally put ?100,000 behind Mitchell's fantastic notion that England desperately needed a plane "faster than anything on earth, tougher than any other fighter, and able to turn...