Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupation of French North Africa had been accomplished with Blitzkrieg briefness, utilizing expert coordination of planes, ships, tanks, trucks, guns and courageous men. In spots it was easy. In others resistance was bitter, though brief...
Steelman Enos and Standard's chairman, Willard F. Rockwell, suggested an unlikely field-armor plate, long considered the restricted province of Bethlehem, Midvale and U.S. Steel. Laborman Golden, who holds no brief for the way most big-time steel companies handle their labor relations, jumped at the idea, explained it to the men. Against the bets of the whole steel industry, Standard began fabricating plate for tanks...
Play of the Cards. With chin up, bulging brief case and a staff of lawyers and experts, the manufacturer then traipses to a regional price-board office, starts trying to take the tricks which may decide whether he makes or loses money for the duration. The board scans the books and the company's records, checks & double-checks for the six major factors: 1) production quality, 2) delivery rate, 3) inventive contribution, 4) cooperation with other manufacturers, 5) economy in the use of raw materials, 6) efficiency...
...strategic reason was assigned to the surprising change, but the letter stated that the move was being made to "benefit the merchants in Cambridge who have cooperated with the regulations, while they were being ignored by surrounding towns and cities." The modification will only be for "a brief period of time," according to the letter...
...deftly, intelligently, against an effective regional background. His studies of children are acute and true. The town of Bisbee, filled with miners from Cornwall, Ireland, Mexico, Sweden, Central Europe, is as lively as a good Western. The passing of the years in mine and home is pictured in clean, brief prose. The writers of 1,000-page epics look pretty paunchy beside Author Richter and his tight, effective 208-page book...