Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows why the kitchen sink should be built higher and slope down; he has washed up dishes at it hundreds of times. He knows about rations; he has cooked them. He can make a bed quicker than most people. Ladies: send Norman to Parliament. He will speak up for you there. Signed: Mrs. Norman Tiptaft...
...self-expatriot Gertrude Stein will stick to her non-average business of writing non-intelligible prose and let the American soldier do his above-average fighting in a serious American way, the war will be won in a quicker-than-average time so that we can go back to making better-than-average plumbing for more-comfortable-than-average American homes where no esoteric Stein is read. J. N. CARR Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. E. F. PETERSON Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R. % F.P.O. New York City
Jessner's first connection in the United States was with the Yale School of Drama; he has also taught acting at Smith College in recent months. Since his arrival in this country, Jessner says he has found young American acting talent "quicker and easier to teach...
...force," which will recommend to WPB ways to 1) help the industry clear its plants of Government-owned equipment, 2) juggle contracts so that all will get off to the same start on reconversion, 3) shift contracts, if necessary, to outside contractors so that autos can be turned out quicker...
Just 17½ hours after the Marines landed on Iwo, the first invasion shots reached the U.S. They had been flown by Navy plane to Guam, sent by radio to San Francisco. News traveled even quicker, thanks to a radio transmitter which the Navy had installed on a warship a mile off the Iwo shore. Each day U.S. readers and radio listeners thus got the direct reports of newsmen on the scene...