Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John David Biggers, whose Production division was directly responsible for many a bottleneck that could have been foreseen; who was accused of playing such swift back-&-forth politics within defense that he was widely known in Washington as "The Phantom...
...time with the new Economic Defense Board (TIME, Aug. 11) which he heads,* introduced his colleagues to the vast, spraddling economic powers they will wield. Not present was the man who will be the executive at the controls, whose job it will be to use that power as a swift, decisive weapon of warfare...
...Italians, the Ukrainian campaign was a pursuit of the advancing Germans. Roman Messaggero's War Correspondent Lino Pellegrini described the difficulties of keeping up with the swift ally. "The enemy mud," he said, "is implacable to those who seek to advance at any cost, and only tractors can get over it with relative success. The distance of a few kilometers seems unobtainable. . . . Often German comrades helped my car along with their energetic arms...
...five swift hours freezing orders crackled in from all parts of the Anglo-Saxon world. Now no Japanese could spend a dollar more than $500 monthly per person in the U.S., move a ship out, sell a pound of silk-without a specific Treasury license. Importers Mitsui, for instance, could still buy oil from Standard Oil on dollar credits exchanged through the South American branches of National City Bank, for instance-but only with a license. Hints came down that the license business at the Treasury would be as indefatigably polite as Japanese statesmanship, but also just as reluctant...
...Communist universe, Moscow might be expected to have the highest morale. From the smaller cities there was little word, from farming villages (where anti-Stalin feeling is strongest) none. But along the Trans-Siberian Railway travelers saw much the same sights that they had seen in Moscow: swift, purposeful mobilization, ample food. They also saw an average of three trains an hour clanking westward with materials for the front...