Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grande Salle a Manger du Ministre (which has eight huge chandeliers and only four windows) was bad; but the diplomatic atmosphere was better than at any international conference since the war's end. The delegates seemed permeated with the realization that they had to move fast to turn the "Marshall approach" into a plan for Europe; if they did not, the price of peace would go up and the hope of peace would go down (see WHAT PRICE PEACE...
...Horloge was being readied for the new conference. It was expected to take only a few days to establish six international commissions, which would survey Europe's needs by Sept. 1. Complained Jules, the bent, silver-haired Quai d'Orsay usher: "Things never used to move so fast around here. Now they ask me to get the Salon de l'Horloge ready for next Saturday, and cannot even tell me how many nations will be there. You understand, we cannot have any empty chairs around the conference table...
...neighbors also found it fine. Like many Americans, they were tired of the mass-produced American bread scientifically refined until it is purified of almost all taste. At their urging, Mrs. Rudkin took eight loaves in a wicker basket to a nearby grocer. They were sold so fast that she set up a bakery of her own in the stable of her Pepperidge Farm, hired a neighbor girl, Mary Ference, to help her bake. In three months she had sold $2,500 worth of bread. By September 1938, the end of her first year in business, she had doubled...
...operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...