Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western's managerial deadwood, hired bright young railroad pros. He brought in modern bookkeeping machines and mechanized track-laying equipment, completely dieselized the line. He also became the foremost critic of union featherbedding in rails, trimmed his own payrolls from 26,300 to 18,500-but was a shrewd enough labor negotiator to avoid a full-scale strike...
Living by Wits. Walter's wandering paid off, he became a distinguished architect and a shrewd and lucky purchaser of mining properties. Twenty years ago, to celebrate his acquisition of an enormously profitable lead and zinc mine at Zellidja, Morocco, Walter began passing out some of the world's least lavish and most demanding scholarships. Each year, 300 young lycée graduates (average age: 18½) get $70 each, and certificates explaining their mission. Then the Zellidja scholars are thrust off to begin research projects, pledged not to use any money except the $70 stipend. They...
Author McMinnies is not a novelist of the first rank, but her second book puts her well in the fore of the usual crowded field panting for the Ladies' Plate. The shrewd characters who make book on form -the book-clubmakers-have given her the accolade (Book-of-the-Month). After the novel's male characters have rescued Milly from the consequences of her own idiocy, the heroine, seemingly immune from disaster, asks her husband: "Darling, where do you suppose we'll go next?" Fans of Milly-or of Author McMinnies -can hardly wait to find...
...gruff Texan, Smith has become a living legend in U.S. aviation. With the shrewd calculation of a gambler, the financial sagacity of a banker and the dedication of a monk, he has propelled American Airlines into first place in the industry-and in the process has done more than any other man to improve the service and standards of U.S. airlines. Says United Air Lines President W. A. Patterson: "There's no man in the industry I respect more-and you usually don't say nice things about competitors...
Writing this record, Editor Mayes brooked no interference. Trouble started in 1955 when suave, shrewd Richard Deems was promoted from the advertising side of the Hearst magazines to executive vice president in charge of all magazine operations. The two strong-willed men began a struggle for position-Mayes opposing any tinkering, Deems trying to establish himself...