Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very day that Il Mondo appeared, the New York Post published on its front page an interview in which Generoso Pope declared: "The quicker Hitler and the Axis powers are destroyed the better off the world will be. And when I say Axis powers that includes Mussolini...
...this made everybody but the Germans very happy. It pleased Britain, whose forces would get more U.S. planes quicker, whose ferry pilots would be released for combat. It pleased the U.S., which would achieve a preliminary security by getting air bases flanking Dakar. It pleased Pan Am, which now needed only a Cairo-to-Singapore link to have the basis of the sole round-the-world postwar airline...
...played symphonies for vacationing Manilans while puzzled Igorots in G strings looked on from the sidelines. Zipper rehearses his men for 90 hours before each concert, sometimes has to teach them how to play their parts. But he claims that his musicians can grasp a trick of technique quicker than many a more thoroughly trained Occidental. Says he: "My first clarinetist could play with any orchestra in the world...
...emptiness of the Red Square, the workers' homes in the Krasnaya Presnya section of Moscow all resounded last week to a sound they had never before echoed: the shriek and crump of bombs. They had echoed the sirens before; they had echoed the loudspeakers roaring: "Bystree, bystree, tovarishchi-Quicker, quicker, comrades." But those had been mere drills. Last week Moscow got the real business...
...this week that the average freight car was in transit only 10% of the time, suggested that carrying capacity of the present car supply might be lifted as much as 25% by faster loading and unloading. A transport coordinator (with fangs) could force such a move, as well as quicker routing which inter-railroad competition now prevents. He could also free the present freight-car supply from wasteful short-hauls and from way-freight services that trucks could perform more efficiently...