Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sieved out by 35 years of patient research (ended last March by Biographer Finberg's death) in contemporary records and in the previously unstudied "Turner wastepaper basket," eleven boxes of notes and sketchbooks preserved in the National Gallery. The figure that emerges is a businesslike professional with a shrewd grey eye and the weather-beaten taciturnity of a shipmaster, a lover of open sea, open sky and the money that enabled him to be independent and solitary. In reproving Thornbury's tales of early love affairs and a later mistress, Biographer Finberg was possibly over prim...
...beginning of the 1937 recession, shrewd Sewell Lee Avery's Montgomery Ward management and other big U. S. distributors subordinated profit margins to sales volume, ever since have bargained with inventory-ridden manufacturers to sell them merchandise at recession prices. This contrasts with the practice of many a small retailer who still sits on much of his 1937 inventory which is not yet completely paid for, and still holds out for pre-recession prices...
...know most about the steel industry. In Manhattan the American Iron & Steel Institute held its annual meeting and tough Tom Girdler, head of Republic Steel -dressed up for the evening in a white tie and tails, as he handed over the presidency of the Institute to his successor, shrewd E. T. Weir, head of National Steel -said bitterly...
...restless and tireless as Vincent ("Ben") Bendix. Mercurial but cold-eyed, many-sided in interest but direct in purpose, convivial but shrewd, he burst into the automotive industry nearly 30 years ago with the first practical self-starter. Today few U. S. automobiles drive the roads, few airplanes fly the skies, that do not have his gadgets in them: Bendix starters, radios, brakes, Stromberg as well as Zenith carburetors, Scintilla magnetos...
...half-century of partnership the Mayos have made millions, but they have restricted themselves and their staff to small salaries, have turned back their surplus profits to the Clinic and the University of Minnesota. In 1915 they founded a graduate school in connection with the University of Minnesota. Shrewd, dignified Dr. Will, now 77 and recovering in Rochester from a gastric ulcer operation, has managed finances with an eagle eye. Poor patients (approximately one-fourth of the Mayo practice) pay nothing, sometimes get checks instead of bills. Rich patients pay huge sums, computed from their rating in national credit agencies...