Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investors got a classic example last week of the hazards in estimating wartime corporation profits. Out with their annual reports were Cessna Aircraft Co. and Beech Aircraft Corp.-both reporting for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Both companies are small, smart and fast-growing; both specialize in plywood, twin-engined training planes; both have recently gone into gliders; both have factories in Wichita, Kans. Yet their earnings were as different as down...
Both of the House basketball events were very one-sided, especially the Winthrop-Dudley contest. High scorer for the Puritan five was Bruce Smart, while Thayer Drake played an excellent defensive game...
...suddenly quit as Vultee Aircraft general manager in 1938, airport wiseacres said his luck had run out, figured he was through with aviation for good. Yet last week Don Smith was playing his biggest role ever: president and spark plug of California's Interstate Aircraft & Engineering Corp.-a smart, fast-growing aviation concern which has produced a plane so good the whole aviation industry is buzzing...
...these helpful production hints G.E. so far this year has paid its smart employes $115,000 in awards. Some winners...
Manhattan Socialite Henry Bergh was 50 when he began to chase droshkies. One day in 1863 a St. Petersburg droshky driver was merrily lashing his horse in the Russian manner. Suddenly a smart carriage pulled alongside and Bergh, who was First Secretary of the U.S. Legation, bellowed to his coachman: "Tell that fellow to stop!" Obediently the droshky driver dropped his whip. First Secretary Bergh nodded approval, set out in pursuit of other inhumane drivers...