Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, and shrewd management, boomed parent Northern Pump's profits from their 1937-39 average of $22,000 to $21,179,000 in 1942-before renegotiation and taxes, of course. Hawley's salary kept pace with the rise, climbing from...
Stormy Weather. With Spyros handling the finances, the brothers expanded. They combined shrewd showmanship with outrageous customer pampering. If a picture was so bad they didn't dare advertise its name, they advertised "Take-A-Chance Week." They taught ushers to salute customers, mind children, run their errands...
...Hole. Fortnight ago, Foreign Economics Administrator Leo Crowley sent shrewd Stanton Griffis, executive committee chairman of Paramount Pictures, to Stockholm. He offered SKF up to $30,000,000 to buy for the U.S. all of SKF's output. If this fails, the U.S. will have virtually exhausted its pressure against SKF through its U.S. subsidiaries...
Significance: in Wisconsin, whose defeat of Wendell Willkie was hopefully interpreted by some internationalists as no setback for internationalism, shrewd Bob La Follette still chooses to rest his party's election-year chances on a strongly nationalist foreign policy...
...respects to French Marshal Vendome. The haughty Marshal received the Parmesan statesmen by rising from his privy seat and turning his bare butt to them. Cried Abbe Alberoni: "Checulo d'angelo!" ("What an angelic bottom!") Marshal Vendome was enchanted, soon signed Alberoni on as his private secretary. The shrewd secretary bought Vendome's vain generals new wigs, found art ists to paint their portraits, cooked them delicious Parmesan dishes. At the end of the eleven-year-long war, Abbe Alberoni was "the virtual quartermaster of the French army." In 1713 the Duke of Parma made him his agent...