Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
...careful Tom Dewey has not neglected to make solid connections on the political side. He works hand in glove with shrewd Edwin F. Jaeckle, State G.O.P. chairman, and J. Russel Sprague, boss of Nassau County's Republican machine. He maintains close working relations with G.O.P. legislative leaders. His political secretary is smooth, amiable Paul E. Lockwood, his onetime executive assistant in the District Attorney's office...
Meantime, the shrewd, energetic woman realized that she was shaping a fine commercial asset in wax. In 1802 she got to England with many of her images intact, put them on exhibition. She added more, taught her children how to model and how to manage. Her venture was plagued by riot, shipwreck and fire. But before her death in 1850 at 90, Marie Grosholtz Tussaud had made an institution of her exhibit in London's Baker Street, first permanent home of the collection. Succeeding Tussauds have carried on. The fingers of at least one member of the Tussaud descendants...
Behind the scary shortage talk some officials saw a shrewd attempt by the manufacturers to knock out crop control of tobacco, probably the only crop which will be restricted next year. By & large, growers back crop control even now, fearing a swamped market and depressed prices in the postwar years, and there is grave doubt whether knocking off all quotas would materially increase planting. Acreage allotments have been steadily upped for three years, including a 20% hop for next year, but manpower and fertilizer shortages have kept plantings below quotas...
Heeren is seldom told what a chemical is wanted for, but in most cases he can make a shrewd guess. Because many a chemical, like Michler's ketone, is known by more than one name, Heeren's file is a complicated affair. Once a chemist asked for sodium propionate; after long research Heeren discovered that this rarity was made in hundreds of tons as an insecticide under the trade name "Mycoban." He learned to watch out for requests from cranks and small-boy amateurs who some times ask for dangerous ingredients. His mail varies between advanced chemical information...