Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have been a smart cat because it came on a Wednesday and only a smart cat would know they served fish on Wednesdays in Kirkland House...
This was no cat-&-dog wrangle. Behind the potent new committee (The Airlines Committee on International Routes) was the tremendous prestige-and smart flyer's brains-of the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Ten days ago, General Arnold hastily called a hush-hush meeting in Washington of the U.S. airlines which operate routes for the Army's world-straddling Air Transport Command. (Pan American was included.) General Arnold advised them to take steps...
...Adams' move was different: his stock is selling near its high for the year, his sales running 20% above last year. And his motivation was right in line with his executive background, first as a key man in the smart, slick advertising firm of Benton & Bowles and then as executive vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet...
Another unusual record has been set by the Chaplain School, namely in the procurement of insurance protection. Lieutenant Peter Chabris, who is in charge of this insurance program, announces with pride that the chaplains attending School in the past period were smart enough to cover themselves with the magnificent total of $1,561,500 worth of War Risk Insurance...
...Dive. For a company that had never lost a nickel in the nine years since smart, shaggy-browed James Work had picked it up for $30,000, Brewster should have been sitting pretty on Dec. 7, 1941. It had 9,677 production-wise workers, a fat backlog of $242,000,000. But since that time Brewster has produced more trouble than planes. It had five changes of management (including the Navy, which ran it for a month), a rash of suits (TIME, May 10), a series of slowdowns (although Brewster has a union contract highly favorable to U.A.W.-C.I.O...