Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start from scratch. While its plant was abuilding, it got the vocational schools of five Ohio towns, including Cincinnati, to set up courses for the specific jobs to be done, and brought out supervisors from its Paterson, N.J. plant to teach them. It also picked up 15 smart young men around Lockland, sent them to Paterson to learn core making. After eight weeks they will return to Lockland to teach others. As it prepares to open its new plant, Wright expects to have most of the skilled men it needs there...
...time sheet and strip mills to study whether they might be converted to plate production. Present annual plate capacity is some 6,500,000 tons; it was hoped that 1,500,000 tons could be added to this by conversion right away. One example was announced last week: smart Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel (see p. 74) is rearranging its Great Lakes subsidiary (hot-rolled strip and sheets) to provide 300,000 tons of light plates, saving at least a year over the time it would take to build a new mill...
...Gardner, Noble and Greenough; David W. Hardy, Thayer; Harold C. Hinton, St. Paul's; Gilbert King, Jr., St. George's; Dryden P. Morse, Belmont Hill; Francis Parkman, Jr., Brooks; James W. Perkins, St. George's; Henry A. R. Peyton, Andover; Charles P. Slichter, Browne and Nichols; Stephen B. Smart, Jr., Milton; John R. Thompson, Andover; J. Robertson Ward, Jr., Milton; Bigelow Watts, Jr., St. Paul's; Alan T. Wenzell, Choate...
...with great good humor, plotted how to include unrationed tablecloths, drapes, narrow ribbons in their couture. Looking forward to the worn ensembles, shiny elbows and frayed cuffs of the future, President Oliver Lyttelton of the Board of Trade sugar-coated the pill: "I know all the women will look smart. We men may look shabby. If we do, we mustn't be ashamed...
...smart Chairman Olds called in TVA officials, officers of the Southeast's private power companies. By week's end he was able to announce a giant, 17-State power pool which represented the largest U.S. attempt to date to coordinate power facilities. From Illinois to Texas and from Florida to Pennsylvania, every generating station owned by TVA and 17 private companies will be thrown into maximum possible use, with interconnected transmission lines balancing the load...