Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Halsey's forthcoming memoirs. He banished prettified dog portraits and elaborately styled gag covers, made the word Post stand out on the cover, and the words Saturday-Evening seem almost whispered. (The accent is the same in the radio plugs and the Post's smart promotion ads.) The success stories changed: "Today," Hibbs says, "we'd rather talk about the second mate on a freight boat than the captain of the America...
...United's Patterson [TIME, April 21] spend more time supervising his airline and less time indulging in smart repartee with Eddie Rickenbacker. The plight of the average United passenger who is dumped at an airport miles outside the city is not unlike that of Raft-Man Rickenbacker...
Here were some of the reasons for the Moscow impasse. The Soviet leaders wanted the U.S. to quit Europe and go home. "Then they would automatically dominate the whole continent." Dulles did not believe that the Soviet leaders wanted war. "They are too smart to challenge us at a level where, temporarily at least, they are at a grave disadvantage. The present challenge is at a level where they are well equipped and where we are poorly equipped...
...California, farmers who used to buy cheap cars on credit were plunking down cash for Buicks and Chryslers. In Nebraska, a farmer's wife who used to lay out $5 every six months for a cotton dress walked out of an Omaha department store with two smart woolen suits at $89.95 each...
Most airmen guessed that Cohu would not have as free a hand with the airline as Jack Frye had. Hughes had come close to losing control of his line once, and he was smart enough not to take that chance again. By virtue of drastic payroll cuts Hughes had pushed through-and the spring increase in airline traffic-T.W.A. was doing much better than last winter, when it lost $1,000,000 a month. It hopes that this month it may even break even...