Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recording needle caught in a groove, the campaign was repeating itself for the fourth time. Four Japanese columns drove south on the city. All through southeast Asia Japanese columns were moving forward in just such a fashion, using the lore acquired in four and a half years of war: swift deployment, individual initiative, shelter-and-assault. But only at Changsha were the Japanese faced with soldiers who had experience against the Japanese and who know how to apply the countertactics of dispersion, road destruction and depth-defense...
...this swift expansion, K. & T. credits a manufacturing technique it helped develop: subcontracting. Since the French order, it has subcontracted more & more of its zooming backlog, now figures 40% of its work is done by others. A saucy baby, it even approached giant Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing, got it to take subcontracts. The Treckers (Father Theodore and four sons) are so hepped on subcontracting that Sons Joseph and Francis went to Washington a year ago to preach the gospel (TIME...
...same team that fell before the weaker opposition of Cornell by a score of 31 to 27 the night before. Overnight the Crimson changed from an erratic, ragged five to a swift-passing, sure-fire combination that handed Dartmouth its second defeat after the Big Green had romped over such teams as Fordham, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Seton Hall...
...Overwhelming in numbers, the Jap flailed at the U.S. positions with rifle, machine gun, tank and plane, careless of his losses. Bitterly, savagely and calculatingly, the tall men from the U.S. and the short men from the island fought back. It was a battle of churning movement: swift slashes of armored cars and men in trucks, ceaseless slamming of artillery, swiftly emplaced, swiftly moved with the tide of battle...
...American Can Co., Beech-Nut, California Packing, Campbell Soup, Continental Can, Corn Products, General Foods, H. J. Heinz, Libby, McNeill & Libby, National Biscuit, Owens-Illinois Glass, Quaker Oats, Standard Brands, Swift, United Fruit...