Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
...Chapman & Co., Manhattan bankers, contracted to raise the needed $1,800,000. Market conditions made it impossible. In the autumn of 1930 the Chicago investment house of Haskell, Scott & Byrne pondered the matter. Partner Russell Wilfred Geyer investigated, found that market conditions were still impossible. But he had a smart idea, and last fortnight ground for Duluth Steam Corp.'s plant was broken. Partner Geyer realized that many construction firms have much cash, no business. The root of his plan was selling $1,500,000 worth of one-year 6% notes to the companies who would do the construction...
Squibb Plan. In 1929 famed E. R. Squibb & Sons, chemists, decided that their druggist-customers should be given participation in the business. No offer of stock was made but smart President Carleton Palmer (also active in Canada Dry gingerale) devised what became Squibb Plan, Inc. Druggists were allowed to buy shares in the Plan for $50, ten shares for each store. The money was used by the Plan to buy shares in E. R. Squibb at the same price. The Plan receives dividends on this Squibb store, is also given a 10% rebate on its members' purchases...
...bedroom door jammed shut. The telephone was in another room. Peter Mathews heaved, tugged, pried, cursed. Across the area way from his window was an office whence he endeavored to attract attention by throwing quarters, dimes, pennies, pencils, erasers, matchboxes, paper clips. No one paid any attention. Peter Mathews, smart, then tied an inkbottle to the cord of his bathrobe, lowered it out of the window, banged it on the window below. A startled old lady appeared. In ten minutes disheveled Peter Mathews was rescued by policemen who arrested him for annoying the old lady...
...Hollander Co., Inc., smart ladies tailors of Boston and Manhattan, last week went into voluntary bankruptcy. In 1930 the company remodeled its Boston building, opened a new Manhattan store, said it was contributing towards restoring prosperity...