Word: legerdemain
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...Pont seeks the new frontiers, there is no limit to the legerdemain which its Wilmington wizards are constantly performing. In three years they have popped out everything from a sulphur-coated grass seed which grows greener grass, to a chemical called Erifron, which makes cotton and rayon flame resistant. They have also produced a revolutionary new insulating material called Teflon. Out of Greenewalt's old specialty, high-pressure synthesis, came some long-chain alcohols which long seemed useless, but have now made Du Pont a prime supplier of raw materials for soapless soaps (detergents). In a pilot plant...
...thing, the Government, always suspicious of Wall Street, gladly approved the deal for sale of the Inches because it got back all but $2 million of the $145 million it had spent to build the pipelines. Moreover, the financial legerdemain had created something of benefit to the nation. By finding an outlet for Texas gas, the company would cut down the shocking waste of over 600 billion cubic feet of gas a year now "flared" at Texas and Louisiana oil wells...
...Amber enthusiasts may not realize that they are not getting what they paid for. By way of insuring a reputed $6 million investment in the picture, Darryl Zanuck & Co. have performed near-miracles of cinematic legerdemain that distract attention from Amber's uninteresting innocence. Chief distractions...
...begins with a shadow-menaced shot of a corpse, then plunges headlong into a feverish chase after a knife-wielding paranoiac killer. Made with considerable style, it is a more diverting whodunit than most of the current crop of movies that mix homicide with psychiatry. Thanks to some suave legerdemain in its direction and playing, it even gives the impression of being a better movie than...
Soon after, ailing Standard Gas went into reorganization, and V.E., who had been chairman of the board, stepped out in favor of Leo Crowley. The great days of financial legerdemain, when a man could run a few electric light bulbs into a utility empire, were gone for good. V.E. looked around for fresh territory. In the sprawling Cord Corp., which then included AVCO as a subsidiary, he found...