Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launching a biographical buzz bomb, which may have serious repercussions in the autograph market, Author Smith & Others make haste to deny that their book is an attack on Shelley. They simply wish to show that "romantic, Pagan Shelley," whom they refer to as "the pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift," never degenerated into respectability; that he was "a whirlwind of devastation, upsetting the life of nearly everyone with whom he came into contact and leaving an appalling trail of acrimonious litigation, financial chaos, childbirth and death, double suicide and disaster behind...
...Swift. The Swift, one of the first all-metal light planes to be made on an assembly line, rolled out of the Globe Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Fort Worth fort night ago. A sleek, shiny, two-place monoplane, the Swift is a cut above most small planes in speed (140 m.p.h.), as well as price ($3,495 up to $3,995). But Globe is not worried about its high-priced product. It announced that it already has a backlog of $11,000,000 in firm orders. Estimated production next year: 4,000 planes...
...casual description of the troubles of peace. Back at work in the White House, Harry Truman was even more intimately reminded of the urgency of three prime problems: 1) the atomic bomb (see INTERNATIONAL); 2) the disintegration of the Army and Air Forces under the public demand for swift demobilization (see ARMY & NAVY) ; 3) labor's continuing uproar (see LABOR...
...failed to find a map, but he unearthed a 17th-Century Italian book beneath the floor of a deserted shack. Just to have it appraised, he took it to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves, noticed a pattern of pinholes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, formed a simple code message. Its exciting intelligence: the King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape...
JOHN W. HARRINGTON Captain, A.U.S. DONALD C. SWIFT Captain, A.U.S. Camp Wheeler...