Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread and water." But Dixie softened up and let the man out for Christmas...
...Kenney's command under MacArthur will include three air forces: the Fifth, commanded by stocky, sallow Lieut. General Ennis C. Whitehead, which fought its way up through Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines; the Thirteenth, now commanded by a smart, 38-year-old pilot, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith, which started in the Solomons, shifted to New Guinea, recently covered the Australian landings on Borneo; and the Seventh, veteran Central Pacific outfit which started in Hawaii and worked its way westward to Okinawa. The Seventh's commander: Brigadier General Thomas D. White...
...unsold stock, up to $25,000.000. For its financing, Atlas received an option on 500,000 shares of Pan Am at $18 (TIME, Dec. 18). Last week, Pan Am canceled the deal. Reason: Pan Am's stock was up to 28, higher than even Pan Am's smart Juan Trippe had expected. Atlas will buy 100,000 shares at $16, under the escape clause of its Pan Am agreement, and thereby net a profit of $1,200,000. This is the price Pan Am pays for its lesson in bull markets. But Atlas loses its option...
Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...
This sounded like an embryo General Motors Corp. of the air-with some unfunctional trimmings. Last December, adding more General Motors atmosphere, smart Mr. Emanuel hired Irving Brown Babcock away from General Motors truck division and made him AVCO president. But last week's deal made it apparent that if Emanuel was pursuing the General Motors idea he did not intend to pursue it entirely...