Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Halifax, Britain's gaunt, impenetrably gentlemanly Ambassador to the U.S., deftly parried a U.S. housewives' rumor that Britain has used Lend-Lease lipstick to prettify English girls for lonely G.I.s. Said Halifax: "Lipstick [is] the easiest and quickest way to mark on a war casualty's clothes what and where his wounds...
...business on $35,000 from a Brooklyn trucker and Sam Lazar, Philadelphia's pinball tycoon. But the committee suspected that the cash actually came from Waxey Gordon and that he ran Worldwide, which had contracted for well over $100,000 in surplus property. The committee thought that the quickest way to find out was to ask Waxey. The committee was wrong...
...calls the step test "the quickest and best test yet discovered" to judge physical development. He is confident of bringing the seven men up to passing by "teaching them how to pace themselves...
Civilian Goods. U.S. housewives may get cocktail shakers before they get vacuum cleaners. Reason: articles which need few parts can be made quickest, as soon as metal is available. First goods to be made from surplus metals will be teakettles, washtubs, tableware, pots & pans, hairpins, safety pins, etc. Second in line are things made in quantity now, but largely absorbed by the Army. Sample: radio equipment. The radio industry has expanded about twelve times; even an 8% cutback would take care of prewar civilian demands. But-Army & Navy demands for radio-radar equipment are going...
...Express was conceived as our contribution to the Good Neighbor Policy," we wrote in asking these men for their opinions. "We are not unduly concerned over immediate profits or losses if only this new venture is proving its worth in other ways-for we firmly believe that the quickest possible exchange of news is essential to hemisphere solidarity and to the strengthening of the ties of commerce and general goodwill between the Americas...