Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surgery and the treatment of complicated ailments. But it provides the family doctor with a meticulously illustrated guide for diagnosing and coordinating treatments for almost every human ill. Conveniently indexed so that a doctor can start with symptoms and follow through to the latest approved treatment, it is a shrewd mixture of modern science and common sense...
Every Wall Streeter thought he knew the answer. The answer was personal; a shrewd, scrappy little man named Robert Ralph Young, board chairman of the Alleghany Corp. In the short space of a few years, Bob Young had become the most-talked-about railroadman in the U.S. Consequently, people took stock-quite literally-in what he intended to do. He had already put together a railroad kingdom out of the roads which Alleghany Corp. controlled: the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Nickel Plate, the Pere Marquette and its stock interests (in ten other roads). Now he was after an empire...
...shrewd paste-up of the clipping from Corwin's recording tape, connected by thin strips of narrative and commentary. In trying to give a serious, upright report, Corwin occasionally let his show lag, repeat itself, get incoherent. But at its many high points One World Flight had a sudden, heady power. The high points were all excerpts from Corwin's wonderfully perceptive, intimate sound track...
...Henry Ford II cut the ground from under the price raisers. With a shrewd sense of public relations, Young Henry reduced the prices of Fords $15 to $50. Said he: the Ford Company was finally making money after a year in the red and could afford to shave prices, hoped to reduce them further. This "shock treatment" was the company's down payment toward stable prosperity. (It would also take some of the steam out of the U.A.W.'s demands for pay raises...
...Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. chartered the powerful, war-built tugs from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will use them to pull two tin-mining dredges from Miami through the Panama Canal to the Netherlands Indies for the Netherlands Government. To shrewd President Moran, the job is more than a pay haul across the Pacific. It will give him a chance to gauge his financial chances of beating the Dutch at their own game, at their expense, before the Dutch and British get their deep-sea tugs operating again, full steam...