Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roger ("Terrible") Touhy knew all the rackets: liquor, bank stickups, kidnapping. So did his pal, Basil ("The Owl") Banghart, whose skill with a machine gun was a Chicago gangland legend. Both were tough and smart as horsewhips, and proud of being redhots. When a prison official asked Banghart his occupation The Owl boasted: "I'm a thief...
When they escaped from the Illinois Stateville Prison (TIME, Oct. 19), they hid out the smart way. With five other desperadoes who made the prison break they headed for Touhy's old bumping-off grounds on Chicago's North Side. Here was the ideal hangout: cheap hotels, row on row of furnished apartments, a floating population of clerks, barkeeps, nightclub entertainers, girls with no visible means of support. And Touhy and Banghart were smart enough to avoid the mistakes of other public enemies before them: they stayed out of the nightspots, kept away from their old underworld friends...
This conservatism was not a lack of daring. It was due to smart soldiering and to Lou Kirn's emphasis on drill, drill, drill. Bullet Lou Kirn will be proudest of his men if they go through the war killing Japs with this saying in the back of their heads: "I don't want to be the best pilot, I just want to be the oldest...
...African campaign, there was a long, tough war ahead. But also important, the very idea of victory raised up its own immemorial problems. Business had delivered the sinews of war; had it exorcised the ghosts of peacetime unemployment and depression? The men who asked this question were not the smart Wall Street traders who try to hedge the future by switching into peacetime equities. They were the industrialists, great & small, who at year's end were employing and were responsible for more men and women on their taut production lines than at any time before in history...
...Chicago's least-known citizens is short, silver-haired Charles Arthur Tilt, 65, who lives in a swanky Gold Coast apartment, is an expert yachtsman, golfer and skeetshooter, is the owner of a cannon-cracker temper. He is also founder, mainspring and president of smart Diamond T Motor Car Co., which last week estimated its 1942 sales 125% over last year to a record $100,000,000. Diamond T had just announced nine months' profits up 45% to $1,063,000-quite a contrast to the 34% drop in the combined profits of competitors, Mack Trucks and Yellow...