Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed finger, tore Mrs. Hoyt's smart costume off her back...
...there is another reason for this recent prosperity. Although department-store sales are 75% above their depression lows, inventories have risen less than one-third, and the gap between the two is the widest ever (see chart). Normally, low inventories are a sign of smart merchandising, meaning faster turnover, fresher and more attractive goods. In 1941, low inventories are also a danger signal. If storekeepers keep their shelves so bare in the face of a still soaring demand, they may soon awake to find themselves forced to buy in a priorities-ridden seller's market, bidding prices...
Well aware was Philip K. Wrigley that priorities would allow him no more aluminum for foil to wrap his chewing gum. So last week smart Phil Wrigley sold his remaining 500,000 lb. to OPM, thus simultaneously 1) struck a blow for national defense, 2) pulled his neatest publicity coup since he bought famed Pitcher Dizzy Dean for his Chicago Cubs...
...Smart, quiet Judge William Henry Hastie, dean of Howard University School of Law in Washington, who is Secretary of War Stimson's adviser on Negro affairs, engineered the formation of the 99th. Many Negroes applauded his feat, but many squawked. Their complaint: segregation of the 99th. Until Negro cadets went to the same air schools, joined the same squadrons that white fliers did, these fighters for race equality would consider it a Jim Crow Air Corps...
...make it available. Editor in chief under General Richardson is witty Lieut. Colonel Stanley Grogan, who worked for several New England papers and A. P., served six years as chief of Army Information in Manhattan. His motto is: "Bigger and better coverage of the War Department." Among his smart new assistants (most of whom retain civilian status) are news-wise professionals from such papers as the Kansas City Star and the New York Times. Transferred to General Richardson is West Point's Public Relations Officer Lieut. Colonel Ernest Dupuy. To handle radio publicity, the press section last week recruited...