Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three pinwheels fastened on top. They sold about 3,000,000 whirlers and grossed about $700,000. Onetime employees of a Manhattan hatmaker, Ben & Joe set up shop for themselves twelve years ago. After losing money making standard boys' hats, they converted to novelties and in rapid order produced such nifties as Charmies (beanies dangling 24 small plastic animals), Easy Money Beanies (with five shiny new pennies attached), and hats with faces on the crowns. All were "pretested" on Ben's eight-year-old twins...
...freshman heavyweight final came to a rapid and stunning halt. Fred Ravreby of Hollis opened by flooring his opponent, Leland Schoen of Stoughton, who in turn just as quickly floored Ravreby. With a grin, Ravreby picked himself up and with one punch concluded the bout, the referee awarding...
...Rumania, "poverty, unemployment and homelessness became the Jews' [fate] ... In 1948, the liquidation of Jewish civic, educational and cultural life took place at a rapid pace . . . There are no more Jewish schools, Jewish cultural groups, Jewish communities, Jewish organizations. A small, powerful Communist group reigns over the Jews in Rumania...
...Hills of Buda. U.S.-Hungarian relations deteriorated in a rapid spiral. First, the Hungarian government "requested" Robin Steussy, third secretary of the U.S. legation in Budapest, to leave the country, after charging him with helping Hungarians to escape into Austria...
When buxom, 35-year-old Soprano Welitsch bounced into rehearsal, singers and musicians alike picked up more glow. Actress as well as singer, she seemed to know how Strauss's libidinous, necrophilic Salome (based on Oscar Wilde's play) should be portrayed. Says Welitsch with rapid gestures to head, heart and torso: "To sing Salome, you have to have something-here and here and here...