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After one of the quickest joint staff conferences on record, the Navy set the course...
...Quickest way to make an Aussie boil was and is to tell him unjustly that his bloody island lacks culture. Without "bloody," Australians could not talk. An Aussie poem (circa 1904) made the point: The sunburnt bloody stockman stood And, in a dismal bloody mood, Apostrophised his bloody cuddy; The bloody nag's no bloody good, He couldn't earn his bloody food! A regular bloody brumby. Bloody...
...Engebi the Marines scored one of their quickest victories: six hours and five minutes after they had landed, following 1,000 tons of naval bombardment, the island was theirs...
...quickest stalematings of a secret weapon by a secret weapon was the celebrated battle of the ironclads in the U.S. Civil War. Less than 24 hours after the South's armored Merrimac had attacked the North's wooden fleet at Hampton Roads, the Yankee Monitor, an armored "cheesebox" invented by John Ericcson, hove into cannon range. They slugged each other to a standoff...
When Sterling Drug bought Watkins in 1934, Mr. Brush moved to Affiliated Products (Louis Philippe cosmetics). He did such a bang-up job that American Home, looking around for new blood, decided on him. The quickest way to get him was to buy his company...