Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying what touched off the explosion, but shrewd La Salle Streeters put their finger on one possibility: the opposite postwar policies of Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum. At Ward's, Avery has pulled in his horns and refused to expand, piling up cash for the depression he thinks is coming. At Gypsum, Keady had poured $53,800,000 into expansion and modernization, doubled Gypsum's gross to $148,555,269 since he took over, more than tripled...
Retailers using the Meter-Matic plug the slogan: "No money down, as little as 25? a day!" Merchants who have attached meters to stoves, washers and television sets have run into a snag: customers tend to feed the meter only when the appliance is in use. But shrewd retailers have gotten around that by attaching the meter to the refrigerator, no matter which appliance is bought. Refrigerators are different: they have to keep going...
...sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half the price of competing models of equal quality. By combining quality and economy, Joyce has built his foreign income until it accounts for about one-third of his gross, by shrewd arrangements collects it in dollars. "What I am exporting," says Joyce, "is technique...
...shrewd old Henry Kaiser expanded his sprawling industrial empire by leasing three huge Government aluminum processing plants. Last week, for $36 million, Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. took title to the plants which had cost $90 million to build. The new properties: 1) a bauxite-processing plant in Baton Rouge with an annual capacity of 500,000,000 lbs. of alumina; 2) the Mead Aluminum Reduction Plant at Mead, Wash., which refines the Baton Rouge alumina, has an annual capacity of 216,000,000 lbs. of aluminum ingots; 3) the Trentwood Rolling Mill, at Trentwood, Wash., which fabricates Mead...
Rope of Sand (Paramount) is Hollywood's flowery way of describing the prohibited desert area surrounding a fabulous South African diamond mining concession. Mounting guard on the diamonds are a shrewd, sadistic police chief (Paul Henreid), and his boss (Claude Rains), an elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...