Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financial negotiations with Canada, Argentina, India and Egypt, had been dispatched to Washington, along with other financial experts. Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, was vacationing in the south of France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants (see cut). Not even the Old Etonian belt could disguise...
Critics of the present system, under which there are basing points scattered through the land, have sought to replace it with an "F.O.B. mill" formula, whereby the customer would pay the actual freight charges. The industry contends the basing point setup is virtually F.O.B. mill. Steelmen were also quick to point out that they had been using the present system since 1924, when FTC outlawed the "Pittsburgh plus" system, which made Pittsburgh the basing point for the whole country. They suspected aloud that all the sudden hollering was just a political maneuver to take housewives' minds off high prices...
...assistant in the Democratic campaign of 1944, he raised enough money to win quick approval for the job of party money-watcher. The U.S. Maritime Commission, which controls 94% of the President Lines' voting stock, thinks that such experience will prove valuable in the management of the $9,200,000 working capital which the company has piled up during its busy postwar operations...
...first day, about 5,000 people stomped in off the blaring midway for a look, munching hot dogs and sipping soda pop. The farmers and their families did a double-quick shuffle around the big brick Exposition Building's art wing, and then moved on, with something like relief, to the more familiar exhibits. Said one dejected official: "These people come to see the latest harvesting machines, threshers and milking equipment, but what they want in art is what they saw in grandmother...
...costs $1.25 (deluxe model: $2) and $1 for a refill; beauty-shop permanents range anywhere from $10 to $50. A Toni wave may not last quite as long, but women who have tried it seem to find it satisfactory. They say it is not quite as easy or as quick to put on as Wishbone's advertising would have them believe, and that it is much better if a roommate is around to help wrestle with the elusive plastic curlers...