Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cynicism was not smart last week in the U. S. Homespun old words like "democracy" and"liberty" had become respectable again -and the common property of plain citizens. Out of the mouths of non-political citizens the times ordained political truth...
Detroit spends $287 a year to educate a subnormal child, $58 for a smart...
...American Oil Co. (Amoco). By 1922 its stations on the Atlantic seaboard were important competitors of Standard of New Jersey stations. The Blausteins worried about their source of supply, because Amoco was strictly a marketing company, depended chiefly on competing Standard of New Jersey for its gasoline and oil. Smart merchandisers, the Blausteins saw a way out, in 1923 sold half the stock of Amoco to Pan American (then controlled by Edward L. Doheny), congratulated themselves that finally they had an integrated setup. For Pan American, with oil lands in Mexico and the U. S., refineries in Mexico, Louisiana...
Recognized as the most ingenious, best-organized radio newsgathering agency in Europe, the CBS bureau, supervised by smart Paul White in New York, now employs eight full-time correspondents, has four stringmen on tap for special assignments. From London, the bureau's European chief, Edward Murrow, onetime president of the National Student Federation of America, wields an efficient baton over this radio symphony. Among stars that he commands are Thomas Grandin, who patrolled Columbia's Paris beat, and William L. Shirer, whose talks from Berlin have established him as the ablest newscaster of them all. Roving assistants...
...Prying Louella Parsons, Columnists Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler, Comic Jack Benny, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (his balding head swathed in a pirate's bandanna), Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour (who had dressed up in a pirate costume that afternoon for photographers), and Fox's smart, hand-pumping Publicity Chief Harry Brand...