Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese Diet Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka made a highly significant remark. In the event of a break between Japan and the U. S., said he, Russia would be taken care of by "prompt and effective steps." Talky Yosuke Matsuoka went on to explain that Japan's opposition to the extension of Communism in China had been an obstacle to a non-aggression pact with Russia, left his listeners to infer that if the U. S. got tough, Japan would give in on this point. In Moscow Japan's new Ambassador...
...accustomed to taking its crime with almost morbid seriousness. Citizens read about it, brood about it, usually come to the moody conclusion that the U. S. is a violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...
...International Physiological Congress in Stockholm, some 15 years ago, Monkey-Gland Specialist Serge Voronoff presented a paper on rejuvenation. Ajax denounced him with prompt violence. "I know the case of a 'rejuvenated man' in the United States," he began, "who felt young until he receifed his physician's bill. Dot vas so high he suddenly felt old again.'' Voronoff stalked out in a dudgeon, swore he would never attend another meeting where Dr. Carlson was present. But Ajax got a burst of applause and an enthusiastic kiss from a bearded French scientist...
...needed to decide what the United States should do about the millions of starving civilians abroad. Since aid to these helpless people, if furnished as proposed by the Committee on Food for Small Democracies does not involve any statement of national policy, and since such aid must be prompt to be effective in tiding them over the remaining winter months, time spent debating the question is time wasted...
Aluminum's quirks by last week had produced some very special, very tight bottlenecks in aircraft production. To do its fabricating job on ALCOA schedule, ALCOA demanded orders far in advance of delivery, frankly declined to promise prompt action on short-term orders. Well-run, well-financed aircraft and engine companies presumably had the brains to plan ahead, the money to keep big aluminum stocks on hand for current use. But, as the U. S. aircraft industry is at present organized, long-term supply alone simply did not fill the bill. Even the biggest companies (Boeing, Douglas, Curtiss-Wright...