Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ericsson makes telephone equipment, operates telephone systems. It has plants in many countries, concessions in Italy, Poland, Turkey, Esthonia, Mexico, Argentina. In Herr Kreuger & associates it will have the benefit of the shrewdest concession-operators in the world...
...attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood opening only a handful of the really great attend. The rest cannot be bothered with the ghastly splendor of the ceremonies. But last week one and all turned out. They came in answer to the loudest, shrewdest ballyhoo ever raised in cinema's capital. Besides, they could ill afford to be absent. Admission, for the first time in Hollywood history, was $11 per ticket. They came, also, to see the picture, Hell's Angels. They went away only partly pleased. They had seen incomparably the greatest...
...sole field general in the battle. Seven sons had old Meyer Guggenheim, the founder of the house, and four still share one common office, sometimes called the world's copper capital. Here is the venerable Simon, now president of American Smelting & Refining Co.; Daniel, the philanthropist; Murry, the shrewdest financial mind of the four and an expert on copper prices; Solomon, sportsman, cosmopolite, a specialist in metallurgical
...desire to "manufacture something," these two men have been "the works." Mr. Grunow is the boss, the plant man. His noisy way of getting things done personifies a factory just as Mr. Grigsby's silent financial maneuvers are typical of a bank. Perhaps Mr. Grigsby's shrewdest move has been sticking with Mr. Grunow however mad his ideas have seemed. In 1927 Grigsby-Grunow stock was $25 a share. Now, twice split four for one, the original $25 would be $363. At last year's high it swelled to a fabulous...
What Publisher Martin intends to do with the Inquirer is still a secret between him and his maker, Father-in-Law Curtis. Shrewdest journalistic surmise is that he bought it primarily to keep it out of rival hands...