Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Publisher Hoyt managed in the last two years to overcome this lead is a story of smart publishing. He boosted his out-of-town circulation by bettering the Oregonian's coverage in small...
Vultee is a smart little production outfit that has developed some new assembly-line techniques (see cut) hut it has made only single-engine planes (Stinson trainers, Vanguard pursuits, Vengeance dive-bombers, etc.). For it, the Consolidated deal is a side door to the big-plane field, which it otherwise would have had to spend millions in plant and experimentation to approach...
...Cabo de Buena Esperanza was no improvement over the Alsina. The Cabo ships are called "whited sepulchers" in South America, a reference to the smart white paint of their top sides and the filth, crowding, misery and disease inside their hulls. The whole ship stank, the food was nauseous, the ship's hospital used dirty newspapers for sheets. On the slow voyage across the Atlantic two more refugees died...
...well-wisher thought he was driving a smart wedge between Fascismo and King, he had another think coming fast. Both in Commons and at Whitehall Britons who know King Victor Emmanuel to be probably the most useless man in Europe made a great fuss. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information, which have been closing in on BBC, saw their chance. Tightened last week was Government control of all broadcasts...
...type of epic war picture that "All Quiet on the Western Front" or "What Price Glory" were, this show is a quickle whipped out just in time to catch some publicity from the first stages of the war. Tyrone Power enlists in the R.A.F. primarily to show off a smart uniform to chorine Betty Grable. She can't choose between plain love from Tyrone and love with a ring from his commander. Miss Grable's acting still isn't as much above par as her legs, but she is improving rapidly. Power has added a wicked leer...