Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being" must fill huge holes in its supplies if it is to be ready to fight on call. As recently as 1938, Chief of Staff Malin Craig figured that $142,000,000 should be enough to plug the biggest gaps (modern field artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, rapid-fire rifles, tanks, gas masks, ammunition). For such ordnance the Army last year got almost as much as Malin Craig had begged, in last week's estimates was allotted $100,266,413 more, was still far from surfeited. Only for Air Corps expansion did the Army feel well...
City editor of the New York Herald Tribune for seven sparkling years, author of a rapid-fire book of reminiscences called Mrs. Aster's Horse, frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Stanley Walker was a name to make any publisher's cheeks glow with satisfaction...
...prove that idea--that we are tied to the Soviet apron strings. The present situation is intolerable on the Harvard campus where despite the former sympathetic reaction we received it is now a question of condemnation of the Soviet Union, disaffiliation with the American Student Union, or a rapid death. This situation is the same in innumerable American Student Union chapters throughout the country...
...collectivization program in the Ukraine resulted in a famine which cost not less than 3,000,000 lives in 1932. It was a Stalin-made famine. The number of wrecks and industrial accidents became prodigious. Soviet officials laid it to sabotage. More likely they were due more to too rapid industrialization. Millions in penal colonies were forced into slave labor...
...mouth around it, Nat Karson headed straight for Broadway. Now it keeps him as busy as brokers ever did. In the past five years he has done sets for 35 Broadway productions. Near tops in Broadway stage painting last season was Nat Karson's rapid-fire blend of Negro jazz and Japanese formalism in the sets of the Hot Mikado. His latest, Let's Go, opened last week at the International Casino, on the same night his Rialto murals were unveiled. But these are only side jobs...