Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jones was still far from being put in a jar. Dispenser of billions of dollars, as smart at politics as at financing, he has always had Congress eating out of his hand. His removal would unloose a roar of thunder in his home State, Texas, and the South, which has received a goodly portion of Mr. Jones's well-distributed loans. But one man in the U.S. still looms larger: Mr. Roosevelt...
Last week NBC producers and directors, meditating on the twelve-year experience, wondered if the future belonged to "original" radio writing (many examples of which have not exceeded the talents of a smart high-school boy), or if the classic works of the theater would again be broadcast. Conceding that about one in 20 of their past productions had had truly professional finish, they agreed on certain requirements for future radio playhouses. One requirement: more than the six to seven hours of rehearsal that are now routine...
...helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks at a smart clip in recent months. Whatever remains of Ordnance's complacency-much of it the result of 20 years of peacetime's lack of appropriations and neglect-General Burns is expected to clear away...
...opening of a rest home in Surrey for bombed-out mothers and children, Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., wife of the U.S. minister to exiled governments, posed for photographers with twin girls in her arms. One of the babies obligingly gave a smart salute...
Grunting under record hauls of soldiers and war goods, smart, progressive Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (The Rebel Route) published a big ad in local papers: "This railroad is no longer operated primarily for the convenience of the traveling and shipping public...