Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other things were done in Vera Cruz. Roads were built. More than half the budget the second year went for education and new schools. But the most spectacular thing was settlement of the land war. It caused real estate in Vera Cruz to boom. Aléman was smart and in the right place. He and Serrano invested in Vera Cruz hotels...
...heard much about him last year until the two-year-olds began to go a distance of ground; then Phalanx showed a liking for the sport. Says Trainer Sylvester Veitch: "He's not hard to handle, but he'd just as soon step on you as not." Smart but rather overbearing, Phalanx is built-to-order for the rough, mile-and-a-quarter Derby grind. He isn't fussy whether the track is dry or muddy...
Good Cheer. From smart Paul Gray Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp. and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, came reassuring words. He doubted that "the best advertised recession in the history of the world" would materialize. If it did, Hoffman predicted, it would not be of great depth or duration...
...gradually moved up from office boy to paying teller, convinced Wells Fargo that he was the smart lad he seemed by catching a forger his first day on the new job. When his mother remarried, he moved into a house with twelve other young fellows, picked up the nickname "Pat." He never had much time for fun, but he distinguished himself one day by pouring a bottle of ink into the tub as one of his fellow roomers was taking a bath in preparation for his wedding. Toward the end of World War I, Pat enlisted. The war ended before...
...Chosen Instrument. One of the things Pat Patterson's economics division has told him is that the international air policy of the U.S. is all wrong. When it first told him this, Pan American Airways' smart Juan Trippe was plumping for the Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only...