Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned from Europe pleased but not complacent. In Paris, the West had held its own against Russian diplomacy. Acheson came home to find the other side of the world-Asia-in need of quick attention...
...wiped out 90% of West Germany's inflated currency and clamped tight restrictions on credit in order to guard against a relapse into inflation. Many industries, notably the Ruhr mines, lack funds to replace badly worn-out equipment. Businessmen, without long-term risk capital, are forced to seek quick profits; they build nightclubs and theaters rather than homes and factories...
...something special. The House gallery was packed and a battalion of photographers prowled impatiently outside the chamber. The cause of all the fuss, a suntanned young man with a face that looked familiar, stood somberly in the well of the House and responded to the oath with a quick "I do." The gallery applauded vigorously; House Democrats pushed up to pump the hand of their new colleague. Eleanor Roosevelt sat beaming in the presidential gallery, remembering (she reported later) all the times she had watched her husband sworn in to public office. This time another Roosevelt-brawny, 34-year...
...others settled into familiar attitudes-little Justices Black and Frankfurter, alert and quick of eye, just able to peer over the back of the high mahogany bench; Murphy with a starched, far-off look; Jackson with his openwork, Dutch expression; Rutledge rocklike, Reed massive and heavy-jowled, Harold Burton with an air of avuncular interest. The court began to hand out what is promised by the marble figures on the wall: Divine Inspiration, Justice, Wisdom and Truth...
Panic & Proxies. Born to the black-bread fare of Italian immigrants, young Giannini thrived on the urgent challenges of disaster, the quick opportunities of every self-made man. Taken into his stepfather's San Francisco produce business at twelve, A.P. became a partner at 19, half-owner a few years later. He retired from the business at 31 with a $250 monthly income...