Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal. In the new hand Holman held, the aces were Socony's Board Chairman Harold Sheets; Henry DeWard Collier, the shrewd, benign-looking board chairman of Aramco, boss of Standard of California; William Starling Sullivan Rodgers, director of Aramco and board chairman of the Texas Co.;Aramco's globe-trotting Vice President James Terry Duce. Their companies produce 22% of the worlds oil. They reached an agreement which, in effect, put Jersey Standard and Socony in Arabia...
...creations. One is aged Prince Sokolsky, a kindly, nutty, wealthy widower who loves to toy with the idea of marrying again-and is dumfounded to learn that his rapacious heirs are plotting to have him shut up in an asylum. The other is Versilov, Arkady's father, a shrewd but patient man who well comprehends the feelings of insult and injury that seethe inside his illegitimate...
...Stapleton was moved by all this, he said nothing. He is a shrewd politician who has worked in or for Denver since the turn of the century. In his five terms as mayor, he has pushed gambling and prostitution outside the city limits, completed the $50 million water system on which Denver's hopes for industrial expansion are based, fought for and built a municipal airport, encouraged tourist money and kept the city free of major strikes...
...reason the postwar shell was too small was the Navion, North American's new four-place light plane (TIME, April 15), which accounts for 20% of the company's current business. So far, by shrewd selling tactics, Dutch Kindelberger has dodged the slump that has hit small planemakers. He is well aware that the upkeep of a small plane is much too high for most private flyers; the cost of operating a high-priced executive-type plane is too much for most companies. So the $7,750 Navion is being plugged-and sold-more as a work plane...
Other stores have tried the automatic system. But none has been as successful, chiefly because they have not been able to get enough merchandise at all times, nor at low enough prices. And it takes shrewd buying by Filene's to keep from getting stuck with "bargains." Said Vice President Harold D. Hodgkinson: "The customers really decide what are bargains. You just have to be right oftener than you're wrong...