Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent weeks, in one of the quickest reconciliations in journalism, the two old men really got together. On the Lend-Lease bill, they discovered they were true brother isolationists under the skin...
...meet this serious situation, C. I. O. headquarters last week demanded a national prefabricated housing program. C. I. O. intimated that A. F. of L. building unions have created a bottleneck of skilled building labor; declared that prefabrication, using unskilled labor to assemble the houses, is the quickest way around it. In San Diego. 3,000 houses are planned for aircraft workers. But San Diego is already building at the rate of 2,400 houses a year. The local skilled-labor supply (says C. I. O.) cannot do both the normal and emergency jobs at once...
...with engines purring, at the English Channel, the nervous U. S. public wanted to know what the Defense Commission was up to. Where were the results? There were none to exhibit. Motormaker Knudsen was tooling up industry to produce the armed forces' materiel, giving orders to the best, quickest, cheapest manufacturers, easing industry on to a war footing. Meantime Congress, the President, the Army & Navy kept expanding their objectives. Not until late July did the U. S. defense program jell into: 1) a two-ocean Navy, 2) equipment (tanks, guns, artillery, ammunition...
...Pregnant women (those near their time were identified by blue tickets) and mothers who accompanied their babies to the country were the quickest to return...
While Kansas towns burn and North and South begin Civil War, Will Cantrill turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year...