Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both companies Panagra proved a smart investment. It throve despite jungles and mountains, and (until the Good Neighbor policy began hitting in high) a surplus of foreign competition. Business doubled in 1940, doubled again in 1941. Today Panagra owns 14 sleek Douglas transports, has over $7,500,000 in assets...
...language of the dress business is extravagant, but, even in plain English, genius is the word for Nettie. Her peculiar genius is summed up in her favorite maxim : "It's what you leave off a dress that makes it smart." Luckily for her, this passion for simplicity coincided with the emancipated anti-ruffle trend started by Paris' great Paul Poiret around 1916, the year before Nettie started making clothes for her friends (and their friends) as well as for herself. For four years she did all her work in her brownstone house, but by 1921 so many customers...
Fred Chase, Sam Post, Dick Forster, Bruce Smart, and Danny Garelick will also make the trip...
...Japanese had really begun the nightmare of bacterial warfare, their choice of bubonic plague was not smart. Changteh is little more than a hundred miles from Japanese lines, and the disease travels as fast today as when it ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. If warm weather brought an epidemic to Changteh, the disease might sweep to the Japanese...
While the khamsin was blowing itself out, the British discussed rumors that Marshal Rommel had been recalled, possibly to command an army on the Eastern Front. It was said that his Libyan staff was now sufficiently trained to carry on without him. Rommel's smart tactics had been as maddening as the khamsin, but neither Rommel nor the khamsin made restless British troops as furious as a letter seized from a German officer of the 104th Infantry Regiment. The letter gave credit to the English as "coldblooded infighters, arrogant and proud" prisoners, but concluded: "So far his tank tactics...