Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Methodical Man. A quiet, hardheaded German, Charles Boettcher came to the U.S. in 1869, when he was 17. For eleven years, he sold hardware-pickaxes and hammers, nails and hatchets-to get-rich-quick Leadville. Slowly and painstakingly, he built up his savings. Then he bought a cattle ranch and moved to Denver. He got to thinking it was foolish to send his cattle to Chicago to be butchered, established Denver's first packing plant (the Western Packing Co.). He got to looking at the vast, empty Colorado prairies. After a visit to Germany, he came back with...
...minutes the shallow, dome-shaped hill was lost in smoke and dust. Spitfires swooped in wide spirals, loosing their rockets. Gradually the quick chatter of the rebels' Breda and Spandau machine guns was subdued and the slower Greek army Brens took over. Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest. The position had been taken...
...President Perón's advisers had hoped that the decrees would get quick dollar relief via ECA, they got a rude shock at week's end. In Washington ECA published its biggest shopping list so far for Latin America. Heading the list was Chile, due to get $12,619,000 for copper and nitrogen fertilizer for Italy, France, Britain and The Netherlands. Mexico would receive $4,000,000 for corned beef for Germany, Venezuela $12 million for petroleum products for Europe. All told, the list totted up to $32,355,398. Argentina was not even...
...speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives of the candidates with purple lipstick, and a Chestnut Street barber advertised "television shaves." Singer James Melton's beard photographed as blackest of the week-with quick-footed Commentator Ben Grauer running a whisker behind. Grauer grumbled: "I have a very serious problem. I put on makeup, but people still say 'Why doesn't Grauer shave...
...guidebook before coming. Pink-faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl, the outline of a room, for later use, and was convinced that a U.S. convention provided too much circus and too little bread...