Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light rain began as the train neared Charlottesville. The President relaxed; grave and pale when he entered the train, the decision that he had made seemed to strengthen him. It had been a week of swift decision: he announced the release by executive order of Navy planes which, to be resold to the Allies, were flown at once to Buffalo, en route to Canada; by the same device he had made available more than 500,000 Lee-Enfield rifles, machine guns, ammunition, 755. But the great strain of the week had been his last-minute efforts to prevent Mussolini...
...week was Henry Ford. Last fortnight Mr. Ford predicted in an interview that, with expert assistance, he could produce 1,000 planes a day. Last week Mr. Ford asked the War Department to send him a typical Army airplane and somebody to explain it to him. This week a swift (370 m.p.h.), single-engined Curtiss P-4O was flown to Detroit, there to be gone over by Henry Ford's bright old eyes. If he puts his mind to it, Henry Ford probably can produce planes in quantity; he certainly can produce aircraft engines. This week he announced that...
Around Narvik, swift ski patrols dispatched German parachutists almost as fast as they were dropped...
...Swift & Co. had tentatively agreed with Glore, Forgan & Co. last April to sell its control of Libby, McNeill & Libby to the public; 3,018,000 shares were to have been filed with...
Newsmen on Tour. U. S. correspondents in Berlin usually get no information except what comes to them from these soldier-journalists, handed out daily at press conferences by the Propaganda Ministry. But so proud, last week, was Adolf Hitler of his Army's swift advance through Flanders to the English Channel, that he issued a "personal invitation" to three alien news men to visit the front...