Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase would not win any friends for the oil industry. So far this year, crude oil producers' earnings are up 100% over last year. Refinery companies are well up also. With profits at these levels, many an oilman thought that the smart thing for the industry to do was to absorb the crude increase and hold the retail line...
...running into difficulties because of K-F's prices. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that K-F dealers offer the highest trade-in allowances on used cars, and thus, in effect, cut their K-F prices to stimulate sales. But neither Henry Kaiser nor his smart son Edgar was worried. They hope to turn out another 44,000 cars this year and are spending $3,000,000 to boost engine production. They hope to bring K-F's output by early summer to around 30,000 a month...
With this victory, the first major triumph for the College tars since they won the eastern championship in 1944, the yatchsmen attacked their fall schedule with Gus Scamans, fugitive from the soccer squad, taking third in a Marble head big-boat competition. Next, Own Torrey and Hilary Smart cleaned up the Intercollegiate Star Class trials at New London, there by installing themselves as favorites for the finals there today...
...comedy leans heavily on dumb-belles. Last week, in the artfully stumbling footsteps of Gracie Allen, Jane Ace and other attractive dunderheads, a blonde newcomer was malapropping her way to the top. My Friend Irma (CBS, Mon. 10 p.m., E.S.T.), a situation comedy about a dumb stenographer and her smart roommate, was doing all right...
Yale was the victim, defensively, of conservative, smart football. Amazingly early in the fracas, Wisconsin had the weak spots figured, sending most of its plays around end or off tackle and hitting the center of the Eli forward wall only on occasion...