Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit. At the Chrysler Tank Arsenal, 300 soldiers swiftly took their posts. FBI agents blocked the doors, the overhead cranes jolted to a sudden stop. Out of the Presidential train rolled the White House phaeton, its top down, the bulletproof windows up. Franklin Roosevelt stepped in. Chrysler's wise, bulky President K. T. Keller eased into one of the jump seats...
...installation of a new top management in WPB. To neat, hardboiled, balding Ferd Eberstadt, who has done a top-flight job of handling military schedules and priorities on the Munitions Board, falls the key job of setting WPB's sights on all production except rubber. To factory-wise Charlie Wilson falls the job of meeting the goals that Eberstadt sets. And to Steelman Batcheller falls the particular responsibility of meeting the key goal, steel production...
...sober, wise Wall Street Journal editorialized for still another: "The freedom of every people to reject any or all of the other four, for themselves, if they so desire." Reason: "Democracy will become the political salvation of the race, if and as it is voluntarily embraced by non-democratic peoples and adapted to their respective conditions, but never if it is made a pretext for an attempt at enforced conformity...
...Verce of Brooklyn." Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, 34, had been Elson's teammate in broadcasting the Series ever since 1936. A wavy-haired, wise and wide-awake guy from Mississippi, he is the "Verce of Brooklyn" by virtue of having been official announcer at the Dodgers' baseball games since 1939. Fond of statistics, he made an excellent foil for Elson, since his chatty, easygoing Southern voice was practically impervious to excitement. Acutely aware of his personality, he refers to himself at regular intervals in a fatherly way as "the old redhead." His reported yearly earnings: above...
...Headache. Perhaps the luckiest college, football-wise, is California's College of the Pacific. Its head coach, Grand Old Amos Alonzo Stagg, is a firm and vigorous 80 (see cut) and not likely to quit as long as he can hear the thump of foot on football. Among the first-rate coaches who have flocked to the Navy's Preflight Training Schools are: Minnesota's Bernie Bierman (Iowa Preflight), Fordham's Jim Crowley (North Carolina Preflight), Southern Methodist's Matty Bell (Georgia Preflight), Southern California's Sam Barry (St. Mary's Preflight...