Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions came fast. Where was his home town? He did not seem to understand. Where was he born? That was easier: "In Kuibyshev, on the Volga River." "We know all about the Volga," a brassy chap informed him. "We have a song called The Volga Boatman" "Very nice song," observed the ambassador...
...Kennel Club to go to the dogs by night. The track sprawled like a giant outdoor roulette wheel, which is about what it is. Chasing after Swifty, the mechanical rabbit that never loses a race, were eight greyhounds clawing and skidding around turns at close to 40 m.p.h.-as fast as a race horse runs. Most fans, who couldn't remember the name of the dog they bet on, yelled like crapshooters, "Come on, seven!" and "Get up there, five...
...process was more expensive than typesetting (one estimate was about 30% more) but the cost was dropping fast. Though it might take five years to make it as cheap and efficient as linotype, some editors thought it had already caused "a revolution." Said one: "One sure change will be the use of larger type. Let this machine be developed a little more, and the cost of starting a newspaper will be very little. Instead of $50,000 or $100,000 for linotype machines to start a smalltown paper, I'll bet you could start one for $10,000 with...
Hawk-nosed, hawk-fast Sosthenes Behn has run International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. pretty much as a one-man show. Undisputed boss of the world-straddling empire he helped found, he has remained so by moving faster than bosses of governments. In 1941, just a few days before the Nazis moved in, Behn sold l.T. & T's telephone-operating subsidiary in Rumania to the government at a handsome profit. He sold out in Argentina last year for $95 million (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), and he got $88 million in cash and bonds for l.T. & T. properties in Spain...
...Gentleman emerged as a classic of hack Hollywood writing; the gags virtually bear serial numbers. Amusing no one, inflaming no one, the show did a fast fold...