Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decoding devices used in Tokyo. Testimony before the Pearl Harbor Committee had already shown that the machine-known in Army code as "Magic"-was in use long before Dec. 7, 1941, had given ample warning of the Jap's sneak attack-if only U.S. brass hats had been smart enough to realize it (TIME, Dec. 10). Now General Marshall continued the story of "Magic's" magic...
...coming International Pictures, Inc. and Universal Pictures Co., Inc. (20% Rank-owned) turned the trick by a smart deal with Rank. Under the deal, Rank would distribute through his 820 theaters abroad at least eight pictures a year made by International. In return, Rank would get what he never had before, wide U.S. distribution of at least eight top pictures yearly. All Hollywood hoped that this would end Britain's threat to squeeze Hollywood out of the golden British market. Many a British M.P. had angrily suggested that importations from Hollywood be cut. They had complained that Hollywood made...
Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver. Colorado University's whip-smart Robert Stearns cried havoc on his coastal rivals for tidal waves, earthquakes and tornadoes. Tongue in cheek, San Francisco's urbane Mayor Roger Lapham recalled being frozen fast in the harbors of both Boston and Philadelphia in his early yachting days...
...would fall for no hifalutin notions about air power and that in the end the whole unpleasantness would blow over. Tardily the Navy tried to stiffen its defense, called in two of its younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific Fleet staff. In Navy circles they were considered...
...inflation is a murderous handicap to trade. There is a wonderful Shanghai story of a case of sardines which was traded around in maybe 20 transactions with everybody making money. Then one smart guy opened a can, then several others picked at random; all were bad. Outraged, he called up the last seller and complained. Cried the seller: "You opened them? My God, man! Those sardines aren't for eating, they're for buying and selling...