Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long, slim, graceful, swift, the Mauretania-like her sister ship Lnsitania-was famed for the way she sliced through waves at 25 knots, maintained such a consistent speed that her transatlantic time rarely varied by more than five minutes. A "bad roller" in heavy seas, she was unpopular with many a weak-stomached traveler. Yet in her day she probably carried more bigwigs than any other two ships together...
Quite unquenchable, Archie Andrews was nevertheless bursting with excitement over new developments in his swift ideas of persuading people to help sell his automobiles (TIME, March n). Not the least of the contracts which Mr. Drake had temporarily enjoined was one with Seminole Paper Corp., an International Paper subsidiary which makes toilet paper. No routine agreement for the purchase of plant & office supplies, the Seminole contract concerned a grandiose scheme for obtaining the names of prospective automobile buyers...
Author Pratt subtitles his book "an informal history." Written with a colloquial enthusiasm that will not recommend it to more academic historians, Ordeal by Fire has no theory to grind, parades its swift narrative of the war years in a series of graphic scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes...
Engaged. James Paul Warburg, Manhattan banker, writer on economics, monetary adviser to the U. S. delegation at the 1933 London Economic Conference, divorced husband of Composer Katharine Faulkner ("Kay") Swift; and Mrs. Phyllis Baldwin Browne, sister of socialite New York State Senator Joseph Clark Baldwin III. divorced wife of Gilbert G. Browne of Manhattan...
...Packard); Benton & Bowles (Best Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet); Erwin Wasey (Real Silk Hosiery, Musterole, Zemo, Bost Toothpaste); N. W. Ayer (Deerfoot Sausage, Eno's Salts, Henry Ford) ; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (Atwater Kent, Armstrong Cork, Gold Dust, General Electric); Ruthrauff & Ryan (Campbell Soup, Cocomalt, Gillette, Rinso); Stack-Goble (Swift, Freeman Shoes, Bromo-Quinine) ; Newell-Emmett (Sunshine Biscuits, Chesterfields) ; McCann-Erickson (BeechNut Packing, National Biscuit, Vaseline...