Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airplane engines to help give the U.S. an Air Force and commercial fleet second to none. In the pursuit Fred Rentschler built United Aircraft Corp. into one of the world's biggest producers of engines (Pratt & Whitney) as well as propellers (Hamilton Standard) and helicopters (Sikorsky). Cool and shrewd, with a mind that ticked with the same precision as his beloved engines, he was never afraid to be called wrong if he thought he was right...
...peasant's rough manners (even today he sometimes stuffs his mouth with food at public banquets, picks his teeth with his fingers). He was short (5 ft. 5 in.) and thickset with a round face and jug ears. He had small, dark, merry, merciless eyes and was as shrewd and crafty as he looked...
...Russians have been waging an unofficial fishing war against Japan since World War II, seizing hundreds of ships and imprisoning 3,796 men. This week a 17-man Japanese delegation led by shrewd, ambitious Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ichiro Kono arrived in Moscow to try to get the Russians to lift their latest restriction. Confidently Kono talked of a settlement in ten days. But unless he is prepared to make major political concessions, the hard-bargaining Russians are apt to drag out negotiations until the salmon are safely in their rivers and hundreds of Japanese fishermen are ruined...
...recruit readers, Le Temps offers a shrewd combination of its opposition's specialties: a double page of foreign news (rivaling France-Soir), lots of features from birth control to Stalin's crimes (to compete with Paris-Presse), three pages of financial news (to offset Le Monde). Right from the start, the new paper's circulation topped that of Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), the morning bible of France's upper middle class. Whatever its own future, Le Temps' spectacular start put the whole Paris press on its mettle...
...traveling exhibition is testimony to Collector Chrysler's far-ranging tastes and shrewd buying. An art connoisseur since he first started saving up his allowance at 14 to buy a Renoir landscape with nude (a Hotchkiss master tore it off the wall as unsuitable for schoolboy eyes), Chrysler eased into collecting by searching out the buyers' markets: "When other collectors bought large canvases, I would buy small pictures. Later, when smaller paintings were more readily hung I acquired large ones. When interest lagged in English, Dutch and Flemish schools, I added them." In 1939 Collector Chrysler also...