Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bewildered registrants, calmly explained that he was just waiting till he was sure they were definitely in the institution before he pulled that line about giving them unlimited credit till June of their Senior year. "You may be an early bird," he beamed "but I prefer to be a smart worm...
...most vigorous in C.I.O.'s prolific family, the electrical union had grown like a beanshoot under the smart leadership of young, tense James B. Carey, who is also secretary of C.I.O. and very close to C.I.O.'s ailing President Murray (wh hates Communism with a pungent, Catholic fervor). The electrical union was held up as an example to other, duller unions. Only one thing marred the picture. It was infested with Reds...
Under swart, smart General Manager Fred Weber, onetime assistant to NBC's Niles Trammell in Chicago, Mutual has moved steadily ahead. From a two-station chain in 1934, it has grown until today it includes 173 affiliates. In the first eight months of 1940, its cumulative billings were $2,494,370; for the same period this year $4,024,680 (as compared with...
Production-smart Ralph Damon, working 16 to 18 hours a day, soon had the Republic plant roaring full throttle. Employment is now a record 3,500 (Jan. 1: 2,600), and 100-200 men are being added weekly. By delivering scores of fast, reliable P43 pursuits, Republic made enough money in July and August to erase a $319,000 first six months loss. There is even talk of a common-stock dividend, first in Republic history...
Neither the War nor the Gas Curfew is something to look forward to, but for baseball fans the looming World Series is. To every fan, it was last week apparent, on Aug. 1, that the American League pennant was already in the bag. The smooth, smart, smitey New York Yankees, with a Murderers' Row comparable to that of Babe Ruth's day, had won 45 of their last 50 games, were twelve games ahead of the second-place Indians. Even jut-jawed Joe McCarthy, most modest manager in the business, admitted that nothing but a catastrophe could stop...