Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smart, Stephen Bruce...
Argentina was paying a high price for her pride. But she named whip-smart, young C. (for Ceferino) Alonso Irigoyen chairman of a new Interdepartmental Committee on Economic Policy to tackle the crisis, pulled in her belt, disregarded hints...
...Thus smart Packard jumped the gun on other automen, got U.S. Navy orders for marine engines back in 1939, British orders for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines a year later. Soon other independents were in the grab bag too. Nash now makes airplane propellers and engine parts, will soon turn out giant flying boats way down in New Orleans; Hudson, new Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and Naval ordnance goods; Studebaker, trucks and aircraft engines; Willys, jeeps and other items. The independents have more than $1,000,000,000 in war orders...
Globe started as Bennett Aircraft Corp. in March 1940, but Backer Frank Bennett was bought out ten months later. The company has an authorized capital of $350,000 and smart, Scottish-born John Kennedy as president. Kennedy went to Texas during World War I, picked up a reputation as an amateur boxer, made money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product...
...very muddy and slippery field failed to stop Tom Mountain former Princeton football captain, who was top scorer of the day, Runner-up in the point getting was Frank Swerles, whose good kicking was responsible for three conversions. Other scorers were "March" Holbeb, smart 5-8 man, who get one try as did Dick Simpson...