Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smart, promotion-minded Condé Nast bought the magazine in 1909 with money saved as Collier's advertising director, made it a semimonthly. His simple advertisingman's formula: bring together people who want to buy something and people who want to sell. That the formula was successful is evident in the roll call of Condé Nast products. Today C. N. Publications mothers, besides Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour (fashions for the younger set), British Vogue, the Vogue Pattern Book, Vogue patterns, Hollywood patterns. A French edition was suspended in 1940 when the Germans got within gunshot of Paris...
Posies for Horses. Since Condé Nast's death last year, C. N.'s president and publisher has been polished, handsome, Russian-born Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcévitch, 43, onetime Wall Street analyst and a smart business operator with the Nast promotional flair...
Carstairs Bros. Distilling Co. last week released a handsome brochure on how to stay in the retail liquor business though short of whiskey. Its "practical pointers from smart retailers" may give the average U.S. barkeeper or liquor dealer a lift. But for the average, about-to-be-parched whiskey-bibber (see above), Carstairs cautions sounded like an awful letdown. Sample pointers, based on actual experience...
...majority of smart operators covered in our survey found that it was practical to limit their customers to four drinks at the most. In view of present conditions, any reasonable man will be satisfied with this amount...
...Dixie's boss is bespectacled, pipe-smoking Raymond Erastus Hart, 47. Smart Mr. Hart learned the grocery business while traveling about Michigan opening new stores for giant Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. He also learned that the way of the small town independent grocer is hard, and decided to stay out until he had a saving trick up his sleeve. Last February, he cannily foresaw the strict rationing ahead, and guessed that coupon-confused housewives would give a rib-cracking welcome to an old-fashioned grocery store, where there was no such vexing thing as "points...