Word: know-how
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Four men gathered to name this future. From Great Britain came Winston Churchill, who has the appetite for life; from China, Chiang Kaishek, who has the passion of patience; from Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin, who has the know-how of survival; from the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt, who has the sense of history. And each of these four men could show some credentials as Man of the Year...
...more cultured or more brilliant in most things than he. And, true, he came late enough to miss a great many of the terrible early defense-days problems that had strained and wrecked many a bigger reputation. Nevertheless, as some gardeners have "green thumbs," he had the know-how, the touch. Things work for him. In Washington, in the very heart of snafu and intrigue, the whole show fell into one long production line, about the time he came, and soon thereafter the production war was substantially won. The battles were fought by many men in industry and government; Charlie...
Chungkingers with know-how see plenty of sense in pegged dollars. Armed with a license to trade in foreign exchange, a member of "The Gang" can grow fat by moving back & forth between the black and the legal market, between smuggling, hoarding and speculation. As those who know the ropes pile up paper profits, they turn to time-honored ways of hedging against the effects of the inflation that they helped to create. They buy land...
California-born Ted Nelson started slowly. After graduating from high school, he spent some 15 years picking up mechanical know-how in machine shops. He finally landed in the Mare Island Yard as a welder. There he fell afoul of a problem that had puzzled the best welding minds for 20 years: the problem of conveniently welding short, pencil-like pieces of metal to perpendicular or overhead surfaces...
There is only one plan for him now-to get production know-how. That was what built the Ford empire, and canny old Henry is dead sure it will keep it together...