Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter walked back to the picket line with a nice-looking girl carrying a banner: "No A.E.F. for the U.S." The reporter said: "Why don't you get wise to yourself? Why waste time with these jiggs and mockies? You're smart." The pretty picket stamped her foot, tears in her eyes. "You've got a lot of room to talk," she said. "You work for a God-damned warmonger...
...clean space. The Quinquelas finally went to the parish priest about it. The priest bought the boy drawing materials, told him to make his drawings on paper instead. Quinquela Martín, completely self-taught, became renowned throughout La Boca for his drawings; his reputation spread to the smart Avenida Alvear...
...Knudsen was clearly on its side. Said he: "What would we do with 30,000,000 tons more? That's too much for me. I'm not smart enough to pass on that. Let's keep our feet on the ground." Moreover, OPM recommended against Engineer Henry J. Kaiser's loan application for 1,500,000 tons of new capacity on the West Coast (TIME, April...
...smart Japanese pilot would shoot down a Pan Am plane. Japanese external airline expansion probably has come to a temporary end. At Singapore, Pan Am will hook up with Dutch-owned KLM airliners flying to The Netherland East Indies and Australia, British flying boats leaving Singapore for northern and western points...
Richard Samuel Reynolds, smart boss of Reynolds Metals Co., who will soon be Aluminum Co. of America's one competitor, last week told a Senate committee that he will produce aluminum for 12?-maybe 10?-when his Alabama and West Coast plants get in production. At 10? a pound, the No. 1 light metal of World War II would cost only half what it did last year, before Alcoa's three consecutive cuts brought...