Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon's professionals urged swift procedure as a matter of military discipline. The civilian defense chiefs argued at first that premature disclosure would adversely influence the minds of the 21 Americans at Panmunjom...
...make ends meet by teaching dancing. Harry Grant quit high school after his freshman year, went to work as a $5-a-week railway messenger. He was earning $60 a month as a ticket clerk when he quit to make more as a bookkeeper and cattle checker in Swift & Co.'s stockyards. He bought schoolbooks and studied at night, and by the time he was 22, he had saved enough money to enter Harvard as a special student...
...Theodore V. Purcell, a Jesuit and assistant professor of industrial relations at Chicago's Loyola University, set out in 1949 to get answers to the question from the workers themselves. With the cooperation of both company and union, he spent 44 months talking to Swift & Co. meat-packing workers in Chicago's Pack-ingtown. Father Purcell became known as "the Packinghouse Padre" and (from wearing a white coat to meet sanitation rules) "the White-Frocked Priest...
...Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, according to tradition (and Herodotus), can stay the couriers of the U.S. mail from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Actually, there are often unaccountable delays, as Substitute Letter Carrier Willie Brown, 30, an unemployed Chicago machine operator, spectacularly proved on Christmas Eve. Willie took several drinks to brace himself for his work and then wove his way home with his mailbag still loaded. On arrival he jovially dumped 282 Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after...
Appleton to Appleton. Just as the new series features Tom Swift Jr., the new author is listed as Victor Appleton II. What the older generation of readers never knew was that there never was a Victor Appleton, nor is there one now. The old Tom series was the product of the same writing factory that also churned out The Rover Boys, today produces, in addition to the new Tom, such solid moneymakers as The Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew books. Originator of the assembly-line idea was an immigrant German organist's son named Edward Stratemeyer, who, before...