Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest headache, tne island's mushrooming population, there is certainly no quick cure. Emigration to the U.S. has helped to relieve the pressure of chronic unemployment-and made New York the biggest Puerto Rican city in the world. Charter and nonscheduled airline operators, competing fiercely for passengers on the San Juan-New York run, at one time knocked the price of passage down to as low as $10. Last year 260,000 Puerto Ricans were already in the U.S. and the northward flow is continuing. But this transfer of population is at best a temporary expedient. Island officials have...
...test as soon as he has the two reagents handy. Dr. Richardson will not tell what they are until he publishes his report in a medical magazine. His reason: he does not want some one pharmaceutical house stealing a march and rushing out with a kit to get rich quick on his quick test...
...heavy protein diet is stored in an internal sac until the baby mud dauber has finished its food store. Then the larva develops an anus and excretes the entire sac into a back compartment of its bedchamber. It seals off the narrow connecting passage with a blob of quick-hardening cement, secreted especially for the purpose, so that it can spend the winter hygienically in the clean, dry front chamber...
...Quick Pickup. In high dudgeon, the American Automobile Association last week asked major U.S. oil companies why, with oil in surplus, had the price of gasoline gone up just as motorists were getting ready for summer driving? While other oil companies mulled over an answer, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. cut prices if a gallon in Kansas City, the first sizable cut in gasoline prices since...
...jumped to a quick lead at the start with a "windmill" 40-beat stroke. Harvard and MIT began with a 36 cadence and overhauled the inexperienced and disunited BU boat within a quarter of a mile. Then Harvard stroke Louis MeCagg eased the count...