Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike's end came after several meetings in which the wildcatters flatly refused to return to work on the promise of double-quick Government dealing with their demands. At last, a deadlock-breaking meeting convinced them of something more: that they would get pretty much what they wanted in wages & hours...
...would be needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes the street as well as the ice, and flame throwing devices only turn the dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian who longs for the ice-free avenues of such a relatively southern metropolis as New York. When one is in Cambridge, one must grin and bear and take a long historical view...
...used-car market, a "get-rich-quick" bonanza for the past four years, was in trouble last week. Across the U.S., used-car prices were tumbling...
...janitor, the Italian music teacher, the Jewish law student, young Rose Maurrant whom he loves, and Rose's ill-mated parents-the mother who has taken a lover, the father who has taken to drink. Long brooding over the Maurrants, melodrama bursts upon them at last-with two quick revolver shots behind an open window...
Whenever railroading needs improvement, Alleghany Corp's. Robert R. Young is quick to volunteer for the job (TIME, Sept. 3, 1945). Last fall Bob Young, whose sprawling empire included no part of the New York Central Railroad Co., declared that "there is a great deal of room for improvement in [New York Central's] management." Last week Alleghany Corp. reported that it had spent some $2,500,000 to buy 162,500 shares of Central stock, thus acquiring the largest single interest (about 2.5%) in Central's widely diffused ownership...