Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred men, women & children sweated away last week to convert an isolated Colorado canyon into an atomic foxhole. They hurried to finish roads, houses, power plant, workshop and administration building before atom bombs rained down to wipe out civilization. Dr. Doreal had said it would be "soon, probably sooner." When the radioactive dust had settled at last, they-the Brotherhood of the White Temple-would emerge from their hideout, help set civilization going again...
...committee was agreed that "more businesslike methods" in the armed forces would have ended the war sooner. But it put a goodly share of the blame on the Administration...
...Baku brought nothing for Brazil. If import-hungry Latins had hoped that the U.S.S.R. could help them sooner than the U.S. or Britain, with possibly a captured German factory or two, the Soviets had failed them sadly. In the first five months of 1946 Russia had sent only $93.58 worth of goods to Argentina, since then only one cargo of Polish coal. Uruguayans who had signed a trade treaty with the Soviets earlier this month were still looking for Russian goods...
...biggest new-money corporate financing in history floored the stock-market last week for a count of nine. On Wednesday, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced it planned to issue $351 million in debentures and increase its authorized capital stock from 25 million to 35 million shares. No sooner had word reached the Street than A. T. &T. stock took a dive...
...wish we had started it sooner," said Samborski. "It was a fitting climax to the summer schedule...