Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house is burning down," said China's shrewd Premier T. V. Soong last week, "and I am too busy putting out the flames to plan rebuilding...
They have not neglected some shrewd vote-getting, socialistic tactics. The government has planned 1) a longterm program of socialized health-&-hospital service that will cost taxpayers $5 a head per year, 2) community-housing schemes. Teachers get a minimum of $1,200 a year ($400 more than the Dominion average...
General George Marshall's sharp eye saw a chance for Chinese peace. Chiang Kai-shek was willing to halt his armies in Manchuria for seven days; Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai wanted a one-month armistice. Marshall asked shrewd Dr. Lo Lung-chi, head of the pink-tinged Democratic League, to help him work out a compromise. Together they led the rival leaders to a middle ground: a 15-day truce in Manchuria...
...salary running someone else's clothing business, Bedford Dress, Inc., before he decided to strike out for himself with $50,000 in savings. The time, 1942, was a bad one for a newcomer to break into the clothing field. But Henry was lucky and shrewd. Dressmakers had heard that OPA planned to reduce prices on dress materials by imposing ceilings. So nickel-wise manufacturers wiggled out of tentative contracts with suppliers. Rosenfeld was smarter-he took a loss by accepting every yard contracted for. Grateful cloth manufacturers did not forget this. When materials grew scarce, Rosenfeld got first choice...
Murphy, a shrewd, quiet bachelor, picked the Pittsburgh Pirates to work on first because "I wanted a big union town." He claims members in ten or eleven clubs, says he intends to notify owners of five other teams, representing both major leagues, that the union wants to talk shop. After he got the big leagues under control Murphy figured the minor leagues (with their 6,000-odd players) could stand some organizing. Then, said he, the ballplayers could fire him if they wanted to, but he didn't think they would...