Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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False Ring. In Chicago, investigators of the theft of a diamond ring quizzed Ann Wiegand, who talked too fast, let the ring drop out of her mouth...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that plutonium, core of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, had, to a certain extent, been tamed. It would still be a long time before atomic energy would turn a wheel or drive a plane, but the new "fast reactor" (see SCIENCE) was a long step beyond the apocalyptic vision of Bikini...
Canadians might be short of U.S. dollars (TIME, Aug. 25), but they had plenty of their own. They were making and spending money so fast that sales-tax revenues at July's end were $24 million ahead of last year. Income-tax payments, despite a 29% cut in rates (effective July 1), were expected to add up, by fiscal year's end, to a whopping $100 million over estimates. Up to mid-August, customs duties, ballooned by the tremendous surge of imports from the U.S., were $44 million greater than in mid-August...
...never even seen staged. She brought down the house. Last February, the Metropolitan gave her three hours' warning that she was to sing Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly on the radio. She had never sung the role before and she had had no rehearsal. But fast study, plenty of self-assurance and a big, warm voice carried her through...
...agreement" by which western railroads since 1934 have slowed their fastest freight lines to the speed of their slowest competitors. The railroads justify it by saying that to speed them up would congest freight yards, disrupt passenger service and create locomotive shortages (by increasing the number of short, fast trains). But the U.S. Government, in an antitrust suit, charged that the slowdown was primarily to prevent rate cuts by slower lines trying to compete with faster ones...