Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many wondered how U. S. industrialists, used to a swift way of doing things, would fare when they met Government red tape. The Army's Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, no novice in Government business, has said that "to cut red tape you've got to be deadly accurate, or run into a demoralizing snarl." But fortnight ago big William Knudsen showed surprise when newsmen asked him about red tape's interference with NDAC's work (TIME, Aug. 5). Replied he: "I do not recognize any. People might have thought we had red tape...
...World War I the U. S. economy underwent a steep price inflation. It served the purpose of stimulating swift increases of production and was not checked until War Industries Board Head Bernard Mannes Baruch negotiated fixed prices with steel, copper, other major industries...
...winter while the B. E. F. Second Corps, which he commanded, was marking time. Observers believe that, had the French commanders prepared as wisely and industriously as Sir Alan, instead of relying on the thin pillbox line of their Maginot extension, the German breakthrough could not have been so swift and disastrous. In France the Brooke system never had a chance to prove itself, for after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south of its prepared positions in a brief effort to close the fatal Peronne-Bapaume gap. Then it was ordered to Dunkirk...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...
...over Britain to bomb inland objectives. So experienced had many a British "spotter" become that by ear he could tell a squadron of death-pregnant German Heinkels, going out to work, from a flight of British Blenheims returning from work. Meanwhile the Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke trail to the objective, which the bombers followed at out-of-sight altitude. This technique was doubtless devised primarily for the benefit of new, sketchily trained German pilots who are sent out en masse with only rudimentary flight instruments simply to follow...