Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval and airforce units to Malaya. To hold their rebellious colonies, the French and Dutch are using men who could be used for the defense and recovery of Europe. The Kremlin did not create the anti-Western drive in Southeast Asia-but stepping up that drive now is a shrewd and important move in the Kremlin's World Plan...
...this news didn't stop shrewd Showman Billy Rose from confiding, in the 195 papers that carry his column, what he would do to improve the Met. And some of his ideas were pretty sensible...
...plant, but agreed to let Republic run it until next May; by then Republic was expected to have a new pig-iron source. Meanwhile, Republic will supply K-F with 5,000 tons out of its monthly 37,500-ton pig-iron production. Charlie White had driven a shrewd bargain. His rent to Kaiser-Frazer is $1.40 a ton of iron produced, while Kaiser-Frazer must pay WAA $1.50. Thus, as long as White runs the plant, Kaiser loses a dime on every ton of iron that Republic makes...
Tough School. Jack Lait is one of the hard-schooled, shrewd, and devoted $52,000-a-year men who make the Hearst-papers what they are. Born in lower Manhattan, Lait went to school in Chicago with the late Eleanor Medill Patterson. He broke in on the police beat for the late Chicago American, covered the rise of gangs, lived through the rough & tumble Front Page days...
...England's richest men, he is serious about the ?18 million shipping fortune he inherited 15 years ago; through shrewd investment (insurance, breweries, coal, illustrated newspapers), he has run it up to some ?37 million. One of England's shyest men, he is almost pathologically serious about his privacy. One of his country homes is surrounded by barbed wire, the servants are forbidden to discuss him with neighbors, his telephone number is unlisted, and he hides behind an assumed name in public. But he is most serious of all about rats...