Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valley and on the crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...
...Venus' handmaiden, she has one mighty asset besides well-publicized vitality: a native shrewdness at hiring smart people to work for her. Says she: "I only want people around me who can do the impossible." She rarely hires anyone who is out of a job. She tolerates no tomfoolery or inefficiency in horse trainers or jockeys either. She bubbles into the paddock before a race to tell her jockeys to "get out in front and go, go, go!" When she loses, she is apt to blame anyone but the horse...
...restaurant business was something new for Sheraton. But new things were the stock in trade of Sheraton Corp.'s two smart bosses: President Ernest Henderson, 49, and Vice President & Treasurer Robert Lowell Moore, 50, partners since they were roommates at Harvard (and ate at the Washington Thompson...
...major corporation smart enough to operate one of the Oak Ridge atom plants and with a large legal department (not to mention outside counsel paid an annual retainer of $30,000), this was a major boner. Only five days before, the U.S. Treasury had announced that the difference between the market and option price of stocks sold to employes will be taxed as income. (Previously there was no tax on exercising options, only the capital gains tax on resale.) The ruling was based on a Supreme Court decision handed down, effective Feb. 25, 1945, on that date. Up till then...
...other advantages: the spunk that pushed friendly trade; the spunk that pushed British South American Airways across the South Atlantic ahead of other nations (TIME, April 1); ?150,000,000 of war-accumulated credits that Argentines can most conveniently spend in England; and the conviction that Peron will be smart enough to look beyond 1946 to years when Argentina will be glad of the traditional British appetite for Argentine roast beef. Such considerations, with Argentina's sticky domestic finances, suggested that Britain's $2-billion investment in the Argentine would take a lot of liquidating...