Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biffle got the news on the Bellevue roof, exploded with surprise, put down his bourbon and water and bolted for his third-floor room. There he rounded up Illinois' Senator Scott Lucas and Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon. They held a quick council of war. Cried McMahon: "What profit is it to the party if we nominate Douglas to pick up a few congressional seats in The Bronx and then see a second Democratic Convention convening in ten days in Richmond...
Barkley: "I am willing ... But it will have to come quick; I don't want it passed around so long it is like a cold biscuit." Some of the big city bosses thought Barkley was too old (70), too tired, and too far South to carry the big city strongholds. But on opening night, after his keynote speech, Alben Barkley got a spontaneous half-hour ovation as the orchestra boomed out My Old Kentucky Home...
...price as a demonstration of Bustamante's strength. A month ago Bustamante had dismissed from his cabinet the reactionary army leaders who wanted to outlaw the leftist Aprista party. Fortnight ago he announced that he meant to steer Peru on a straight-down-the-middle course. In the quick showdown forced by Llosa, the army stood behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising were discredited. Another favorable sign: before the Andean...
Haircuts rose from $500,000 to $780,000 in a week. China's banks refused loans on anything but raw materials subject to quick sales. In Shanghai a housepainter insisted on payment in advance lest the price charged for the whole job fail to cover the cost of paint. Most salaries were geared to a monthly cost-of-living index, but the index ran hopelessly far behind prices in the spiraling race to oblivion, and China's housewives well knew that months would pass before present prices were reflected in their husbands' paychecks. Since to keep their...
...years ago Drs. Arthur G. Schoch and Lee J. Alexander of Dallas' Syphilis and Venereal Disease Clinic started looking for a quick way to knock out syphilis while it is still in the incubation stage. They think they have found it. Their "abortive treatment" consists of injection of 900,000 units of penicillin, three cubic centimeters of bismuth ethylcamphorate, 0.05 to 0.06 grams of arsenoxide. The drugs cost only one-tenth of the full penicillin treatment, and the injections take only five minutes. Out of 148 patients who had been in contact with known syphilitics, 127 were under observation...