Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parachutes and Stockings. Primemover behind this rise that carried the eleven-store Gimbel chain ahead of arch-rival R. H. Macy & Co. as well as Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores, is greying Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 59, robust, genial patriarch of the Gimbel clan. He had a hunch that the war would boom retail sales. So he turned his buyers loose with instructions to order all they could of consumer goods which would be among the first casualties...
When "prewar" goods in wholesale markets gave way to strange and often inferior substitutes, buyers shied competitors away from the new goods: but Gimbel sent his buyers out to place whopping orders. Bernard Gimbel was playing another hunch based on a sound merchandising theory: so long as people had plenty of money to spend they might not be too choosy about what they could buy. Also he kept a sharp eye out for Army & Navy surpluses, figured out civilian uses for them. When a Gimbel buyer heard of a stock of 100,000 Army-rejected small parachutes used to drop...
Bernard Gimbel is playing another hunch. He intends to try to keep Gimbel inventories at their normal three-months stock. His hunch: prewar standards in merchandise will return so slowly that he will have plenty of time to unload his substitute goods at no great loss...
With just one horse, a four-year-old chestnut filly, Frenchy Pinon built a hunch into a six-figure bank account in 1944. He won the $15,000 Hawthorne Handicap, the $25,000 Vanity Handicap, topped off the season with a $61,425 check from the Hollywood Gold Cup, last big race of the year...
Whether or not Sister Mary Elaine's mass eventually receives official approval for liturgical use, it is Father Lord's "hunch that Pope Piux X [whose Motu Proprio on Sacred Music is the definitive authority] would have approved most enthusiastically of this transference of a great series of musical themes to the greatest of musical purposes...