Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efficiency of these chain bakeries and the amount of territory they serve are, however, greater than those of their independent and smaller competitors, owing to their employing fleets of trucks for making rapid deliveries. Large-scale baking also makes possible many economies of operation in labor and material costs. How far mergers in the breadmaking field may go, no one can say. The field is apparently wide open. In another decade we may have a "Bread Trust" for fearless politicians to attack in election years...
...progress of Prohibition in the field of international agreement has been rapid since the first so-called Twelve-Mile-Limit Treaty with Great Britain (providing for the seizure of rum ships within an hour's sailing distance .of the coast, in exchange for allowing foreign ships to come into U. S. ports with liquors under seal). That treaty was several months in negotiation; it was signed late last January...
...Deputy Chief of Staff, and acts as the military head of the Army during General Pershing's absences from Washington. His temporary job merely becomes permanent. Incidentally, the change will bring to the highest post in the Army a War-made officer, whose rise in rank was extremely rapid. In 1917, General Hines was a major in the regular Army. He had been graduated almost 26 years earlier from West Point. His most prominent post had been as Adjutant General of the "Punitive Expedition" to Mexico...
...made officer whose rise was rapid...
Much of the reverence long held for Standard Oil companies by the investing public bids fair to depart after the recent spell of omitting dividends. In rapid succession directors of Atlantic Refining and Standard Oil of Kansas have decided to give nothing to stockholders, which goes to show that even Standard Oil companies are human and fallible...