Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Burns & Gracie Allen passed their 15th radio anniversary. George thought he knew why they have lasted so long: "People get smarter and so do we. . . . Every comedian usually thinks the whole world depends on each joke. . . . Actually the world doesn't give a damn [so] now we concentrate on overall effect. It makes us feel better and . . . you've got to be fluid in this business. You've got to get like jelly...
...Hughes might have pulled one monkey-shine too many. A lot of people in & out of T.W.A. were getting fed up. One was CAB Chairman James M. Landis. Others were officials of RFC, who had practically promised early this year to lend T.W.A. $60,000,000. But RFC was smarter than it had been when it sank $19½ million into Hughes's 750-passenger "Hercules." With the "Hercules" some two years be hind schedule, RFC's faith in Hughes was dwindling...
...around Truman would look just as appropriate," he said, "around a Republican president--except that, were the president Republican, the satellites would probably be smarter. Men like George Allen, John Snyder, Harry Vaughan, and Clark Clifford are, in fact, temperamentally and emotionally Republicans...
...Tories are not making much headway with these tactics. They cannot quite present the nationalization issue as one of bureaucracy v. free enterprise, because too many Britons know that for several decades British industrialists had gone in for Government-sponsored cartels which stifled competition. The smarter Conservatives are content to "wait and see" how Labor makes out over the next two years, although most of the Tory press carries on a campaign of puerile and apparently futile invective...
...time, 1942, was a bad one for a newcomer to break into the clothing field. But Henry was lucky and shrewd. Dressmakers had heard that OPA planned to reduce prices on dress materials by imposing ceilings. So nickel-wise manufacturers wiggled out of tentative contracts with suppliers. Rosenfeld was smarter-he took a loss by accepting every yard contracted for. Grateful cloth manufacturers did not forget this. When materials grew scarce, Rosenfeld got first choice...