Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which have U.S. airline operators in a tailspin. Besides President Roosevelt the conferees included members of the Pacific War Council (with tall, gaunt Lord Halifax representing Britain), top-drawer officials from the State Department and the Army-Navy air-cargo divisions, a handful of U.S. airline operators, headed by smart, suave Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe...
...parting shot as U.S. Price Czar, Leon Henderson last week tossed up a smart-sounding plan to siphon loose cash from U.S. citizens, thus help control inflation. The scheme: a buy-in-advance arrangement to sell purchase certificates now on consumer goods to be delivered after...
...they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...
After the Miami Beach escape Ursula drove Bryan to her surfside home, outfitted him with civilian clothes. "I remember I wanted to give you things . . . smart sport roadsters and pearls-the moon in general. . . ." In her books one could freely do such things; when arrested, Ursula said it was all just "an impulse...
...nosegays for this deal go to smart, up-from-the-ranks U.S. Pipe President Norman Felt Shelton Russell, who joined the company 33 years ago, has seen it grow from just another pipe producer to champion in its field. One of the first U.S. corporations to land war contracts, U.S. Pipe three years ago was selling millions of dollars worth of cast-iron water mains for Army camps, defense houses. Then Pipemaker Russell took on orders for shells, gun mounts, howitzer barrels, etc. Result: sales in 1941 jumped to a 15-year peak of $23,000,000; sales last year...