Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidents of the four biggest eastern railroads met with the train builders of ACF Industries to discuss a radical train. The roads: New York Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania. The train the railroaders had in mind was similar to ACF's swift "Talgo" express, which has been running for four years on Spanish railroads (TIME, April...
...world's swift and calamitous change-the Depression, the rise of Hitler -passed Locarno by. In 1936 Hitler broke the pact by sending German troops into the Rhineland. Neither France nor Britain moved a muscle. Anthony Eden, then as now Britain's Foreign Secretary, while admitting that his confidence in Germany's word had been "profoundly shaken," told the House of Commons: "There is, I am thankful to say, no reason to suppose that the present German action implies a threat of hostilities. The German government speak ... of their 'unchangeable longing for a real pacification...
...reason for this swift trend is the success of the European Payments Union, set up to stabilize European currencies and encourage freer exchange. Another reason is the strength and stability of British sterling, the exchange used in 40% of the world's foreign trade. As sterling has become stabilized, so has Britain prospered...
Roast in the Can. Low-priced canned beef will soon be put on the market by Swift, Armour and Hormel to capitalize on the recent drop in beef prices and an anticipated fall surplus of low-grade beef. The chopped-beef luncheon meat will resemble Spam, is expected to sell for 37? to 39? per 12-oz. can (v. about 47? for Spam...
...real life, 29-year-old Cox is a bachelor; Patricia Benoit is the wife of Peter Swift, a magazine production...