Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral William F. Halsey, guest of honor at a Los Angeles dinner, met an old friend, Mrs. Patricia Smart, fell into the swing of civilian life with no trouble...
...pocket he had some 5,300 orders (with cash deposits), probably the fattest backlog of anyone in the light-plane industry. And there were plenty more in the offing, thanks to a smart deal to sell his planes in department stores (John Wanamaker's Manhattan and Philadelphia stores and Mandel Bros, in Chicago already have contracts to sell Piper planes). Next year, he hopes to step way out in front of the industry with his single-place, 90-m.p.h. Skycycle, which will sell for under...
...Result? In the midst of all this gloom, the U.A.W.'s smart, redheaded Walter P. Reuther stepped up with a typically procrustean solution. Could G.M., said he, with a meaning look at the entire industry, prove that it could not grant the U.A.W. increase and still sell its cars at 1942 prices with a "fair" profit? If it could, then the U.A.W. would modify its demands...
...force of 400,000, the size of the force they will have will not be as disconcerting as the force's lack of balance. Approximately 60,000 of the A.A.F. next spring will be gunners. Pilots, who have generally collected the most points, are leaving in droves. The smart, self-reliant youngsters whom A.A.F. would most like to keep are the quickest to leave; they are not afraid to try civilian life...
Also in production in Detroit were Vogue recordings. Made of vinylite with an aluminum core, Vogue records are put out by smart, young (29) Tom Saffady, president of Detroit's beanstalking Sav-way Co. (TIME, March 27, 1944). Vogue recordings will be chiefly of popular music and will be sold in such outlets as drugstores and motion-picture lobbies. As a sales tickler, Vogue records will have pictures of singers under the surface of the transparent plastic. Price: between 50? and 75? apiece...