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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Airways' Pilot A. B. H. Youell took his nine passengers over the French border during a routine Zurich-London flight last week he heard a clap of thunder. Looking overboard he saw a puff of black smoke. Then five more claps and five more puffs followed in quick succession. Pilot Youell knew antiaircraft fire when he saw it. He checked his position: near Strasbourg, France. Pouring on the coal to 10,000 feet, swerving from his course, he radioed Strasbourg airfield to find out if war had begun. "Very sorry," came the answer. "You were near the Maginot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Thunder Underneath | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...original cost of this car was just imder $100,000. Will sell for one-third of this sum if quick sale can be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Volunteer spotters, eyes & ears straining for the sight or sound of high-flying "invaders," flashed word of the enemy approach to the fields where pilots stood ready to gun the 1,000-h.p. engines of 800 quick-climbing Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. The Territorial Army probed cloudbanks with searchlights, traced the paths of the invading bombers with the long snouts of their anti-aircraft guns. In London balloon barrage crews, on the alert 24 hours a day, inflated their tricky sausages and let them up 700 feet-far lower than would be needed to entangle a real enemy. Defending fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastland v. Westland | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...trustee towards retirement of its $26,995,000 of 4% bonds, and $1,659,665 to reduce a $3,500,000 bank loan. That left very little in the kitty. It had on August 2 about $1,613,000 of cash and accounts receivable, quick assets, which amounted to only about 40% of its quick liabilities. For the Fair had still to retire a $1,700,000 bank loan, had $4,113,000 of unpaid and past due bills. Of its unpaid bills one was most pressing: $2,700,000 owed to contractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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