Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's plan for an international air policy was announced last week by an American-smart Wayne Parrish, editor of Washington's American Aviation Daily. Four days after Editor Parrish printed the details, U.S.-born Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe confirmed them...
...excitement over Russia's act had subsided into speculation over the motives behind it. What in the world was Uncle Joe up to now? Nobody knew for certain-that was the whole point-but the theories that were put out ranged from 1) "That Stalin is one smart cookie" to 2) "Them Russians are sure dumb." Was Stalin...
...Smart-in Some Ways. Even with all the fighters you could see Berlin plain. The prettiest city I ever seen from the air, prettier than Paris, laid out so perfectly. Those krauts are smart Joes in some ways...
...permission to withdraw 35,000,000 gal. of good U.S. grain alcohol at 90? a gal. and to turn it into good U.S. prewar-style potables. This was supposed 1) to add at least 10% to the nation's liquor supplies, 2) to give the Government a smart profit and, 3) to increase the U.S. alcohol supply without drawing on scarce U.S. grain. Besides, as one enthusiastic liquorman put it, it might "head off hoarding, strike at the heart of the black market, curb . . . gorillas and gangsters on the fringes of the industry...
Hope Dashed. There was only one flaw: war industry (synthetic rubber, explosives, etc.) is the big consumer of alcohol today, not hair tonic. And there is not enough alcohol. Smart sugarmen in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean have converted all sugar possible into liquor instead of into the good alcohol base, blackstrap molasses. Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import...