Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Claus? Last week 18 meat packers headed by Armour and Swift got injunctions in Chicago forbidding the Government to collect hog processing taxes. In Virginia, P. Lorillard (Old Golds) and Philip Morris opened suits against tobacco processing taxes. In Detroit, Denver and Kansas City Federal judges restrained the Government's tax collections. Processing taxes on wheat, corn, hogs, cotton, tobacco were contested. A temporary injunction against the operation of the Bankhead Cotton Act was issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before...
...first generation of Rocky Mountain capitalists, piling up their millions in the turbulent frontier period, were usually hard, determined men who were entirely satisfied with the simple acquisition of wealth and power. But so swift was the West's industrial expansion that a Montana-born financier, William Boyce Thompson, beginning his career as a small mining promoter, soon found himself involved in politics that had international ramifications, and before the end of his life had played a spirited-and unsuccessful-part in the greatest historic event of modern times. Hermann Hagedorn, in a friendly and somewhat romantic biography...
...sultanesque life for some years, enjoying the favors of over 300 girl guides, and breaking the resistance of girls who repelled him by threatening to fire them from their jobs (softest in the Union) or to incriminate them with the OGPU on some trumped-up charge. Convicted after swift trial by a Red Court, Sultanesque Sergei got ten years at hard labor...
...white tights and black blouse. In Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice he was an exuberant Broom, bounding about until he ripped his tights open. And, decked with pink blooms in Le Spectre de la Rose, the role which Nijinsky made his own, Haakon managed to be swift and sure" in the soaring leaps...