Word: forthwith
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...Government did well to promise the restoration of France. But not this [Vichy] France. . . . It is useless to disguise the strength of British feeling against it. This France, His Majesty's Government cannot restore and it would be better for them to say so forthright and forthwith...
...Army Air Corps had not yet gone all-out for big bombers when Bob Lovett gave up his partnership in a Manhattan banking house (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), became Assistant Secretary of War for Air last April. He forthwith went all-out, yammered for more and heavier bombers until he got action. Now the U.S. is striving to get capacity to build 500 such bombers a month...
Ineligible to run the Braves, Turfman Adams forthwith got hardy Bob Quinn, onetime owner of the rival Boston Red Sox, to take charge of the club (renamed the Bees) until a suitable buyer could be found. But customers for a big-league ball club do not grow on trees...
Last week 14 resourceful songwriters filed suit against NBC, CBS, National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Music, Inc. for $1,215,500 on the ground that while fighting American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers the broadcasters had conspired to destroy the livelihood of the composers. Forthwith ASCAP repudiated the suit. Said a spokesman: "We have plenty of troubles of our own without worrying about what those guys are going...
...Libyan attack, a cruiser squadron caught a convoy consisting of two ships laden with motor transport, one ammunition ship, and two ships thought to be carrying troops, all protected by three Italian destroyers. The British swept in, slapped aside the flimsy protection, and sank the whole convoy forthwith. The British lost one destroyer, the 1,870-ton Mohawk, in the operation, but saved most of her crew...