Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be comforting to Washington officialdom to discover that Russia is no more immune from the ravages of inflation than are the "decadent democracies. Evidently a considerable number of Russians are not above turning a quick ruble by somewhat questionable methods. Evidently some Russians rather fancy the idea of playing capitalist. Otherwise, the Council of Ministers would not have found lit necessary to announce the issue of new currency beginning tomorrow...
...Dealer John Hanson dramatized the U.S. farmer's prosperity in a new way. He scrubbed the dollar signs off his price tags, substituted a figure in hog-pounds. When one of his customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...
Before U.N., at many an inter-American conference and in dozens of crises, the quick-witted Brazilian had engineered the compromises that held the hemisphere together. He always knew how to break an impasse with a joke and he could drop a tear at the twist of a metaphor...
...Mencken, cackling, venerable Sage of Baltimore, made quick response when he read a complaint that no local museum had a painting by Thomas Hart Benton. He himself had one, said Mencken, "in my cellar at this minute, gathering dust"-and he offered it to "any gallery that wants it, entirely free of all cost or expense." The Baltimore Museum of Art got the painting (an abstraction done in Benton's "earlier and more foolish days"), and Mencken asked as his reward an exemption on his income...
...acrid smell of burning flesh, Bob Kleberg threaded his horse in & out of the milling hundreds of cherry-red cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick Spanish phrases which cattle to "cut out" for branding. As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground. While the calf still kicked in a cloud...