Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Things moved fast. Mr. Slater, the author, was met by our representative in London, and Conspirator purchased from him on April 22, 1948, three days after the date of TIME'S issue. The following day Slater was approached by three other major American studios, all equally inspired by the TIME review. They arrived too late...
...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...
This week, the Communist radio blared out an ultimatum: Li had just three days to say yes or no to Mao's "peace" terms. Yes or no, Li Tsung-jen's dream of decent peace and a non-Communist China south of the Yangtze was fading fast...
Health Minister Aneurin Bevan and his closest political friends believe that Socialism is like a bicycle;-if it stops, it topples. Therefore they have long advocated a fast, nonstop nationalization of British industries. Last week it was apparent that the Bevan group had given some ground to the go-slow faction headed by Herbert Morrison. Labor issued the first draft of the platform on which it hopes to be re-elected next year, and the gist was that the Socialist bicycle would move forward at a greatly reduced rate of speed...
...Moderates" like Morrison clashed with Bevan's fast-cycling views. The upshot was a compromise. Nationalization was only extended to six more industries-water supply, meat wholesaling and cold storage, all "suitable" mineral production, industrial insurance, sugar, cement. Actually, three of these are already partially under state control; all can be controlled-Labor hopes-without complex reorganization...