Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent most of Huey Long's inheritors (including ex-Governor Leche) to the penitentiary. Since he took office five years ago, he has pulled New Orleans out of bankruptcy, put its finances on a cash basis, cut $20,000,000 from its debt. Like the Kingfish, Maestri is smart. His friends dabble in rackets to their hearts' content, but Maestri apparently keeps his hands clean. "Let the other guys have that stuff," he once told a reporter. "I made mine outside...
...advertising-about half that of the Tribune-consists largely of "new accounts," i.e., those who have not advertised before. Meanwhile the smart Tribune misses no bets. Pulling out all the patriotic stops, it has encouraged Chicago to let isolationist bygones be bygones with colored front-page cartoons and maps, bigger Washington and war coverage. Last week it started a $5,000 contest based on Tribune comics-hitting the comics-weak Sun where it hurts most...
...started in 1898 by Edward Kearney and Theodore Trecker, two smart machinists who were tired of sweating for other people. Their first job: repairing a baby carriage. Later they specialized on that most versatile of machine tools, the milling machine. The milling machine, holding a chunk of metal in a movable bed, works on three sides of it at once with as many as eight multi-toothed rotating cutters. First big break for K. & T. was the auto industry's need for highly finished flat or grooved surfaces-the kind of work millers do best...
...previously scored wins over M.I.T., Northeastern, and Brown. The Yardlings do not have another game scheduled until after mid-years when they will meet Tufts on the same night as the Varsity does. The Crimson box score is as follows: gls fls pts DeLeo, l.g. 0 1 1 Smart, l.g. 0 0 0 Rudman, l.g. 0 0 0 Richards, r.g. 2 1 5 Stamphl, r.g. 0 0 0 Sheer, r.g. 0 0 0 Keene, e. 7 2 16 Noyes, e. 0 0 0 Bixler, l.f. 11 0 22 Bergobbi, l.f. 0 0 0 Hennessey, r.f. 1 4 6 Totals...
Beech's secretary then was Olive Ann Mellor, a smart girl who urged him to sell out at the top of the boom to Curtiss-Wright. He did, became a Curtiss-Wright vice president. But Beech is no chairwarmer, unless the chair is a pilot's seat (he has 15,000 solo hours). So first he married Olive Ann, then he quit Curtiss to organize Beech Aircraft in 1932. His first break came when he startled the industry with his "reverse stagger" biplane (lower wing ahead of upper). Called unairworthy at the time, Beech biplanes are still...