Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your skill just because you love the English. For all I know, you don't. You are really being asked to fight, as we are fighting in Australia, for the decent, suffering, ordinary people. . . . The cry going out for material is a tremendous challenge to the industrial genius of the United States. All the world knows you can do it if you put your mind to it. The question is, how quickly can you get going...
...Dodge Brothers, the Fisher Brothers, many another automotive bigshot-something not generally understood or valued in the U.S., something that must be read mostly between the lines: the story of what Grade A business management means and can achieve. It is the inadvertent self-revelation of a resourceful organizing genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which Promoter Durant put together with all a promoter's nonchalance, and made it into a well-knit...
...licked by Our Boots. Last week, four days before the Big Race, he was given another tuneup in the Derby Trial Stakes-only to be beaten by Blue Pair, a colt that cost $600 as a yearling. In desperation, Trainer Ben Jones got canny Eddie Arcaro, a genius at handling headstrong horses, to ride Whirlaway in the Derby...
...Mistress Mine, sung by Marion Mann accompanied by Bob Crosby's Bob Cats. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph: "The seemliness of presenting such versions of Shakespeare from his own land and on his own day to a people who have never concealed their respect for his genius is to be raised in Parliament...
...seemed to be indulging in wishful thinking on that point. Scarcely had he set foot on Japanese soil than he delivered himself of a speech in which he said: "It is extremely reckless to maintain relations with persons that one has not even met. Only a fool or a genius can do that...