Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleet of twelve specially built trucks, each carrying a 30-ft. section of bridge, rolled up to the edge of the swift-running Chattahoochee River, unlimbered their derricks. Men with air compressors inflated the rubber floats, others laid down the steel treadways. In 2 hr. 6 min. the treadways were cleared, an armored column started across. Best time for the old bridge at the same spot...
...third day of the war, at lunch time, radio stations on the Atlantic seaboard had to grapple with a scare report (see p. 61). In a sweat of swift thinking ("hardest thing I ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...
...campaign in Libya," wrote the London News Chronicle, "has not met the swift, decisive success which several incautious predictions of the first few days encouraged us to hope...
...only 7% of the U.S.'s productive capacity was busy with defense work. This year it is estimated at 25%. Next year it will be 49%. In 1943, it will be 54%. What this tremendous shift will do to the U.S., in swift shortening of butter supplies in favor of guns, in great blotches of unemployment, no man had the imagination fully to realize...
...most promising of the year's new writers were Maritta M. Wolff and Eudora Welty. Miss Wolff's Whistle Stop ($2.50) was written with thumbs and overrated, but some passages showed an insight and a swift intensity which can develop into a good novelist. Miss Welty's A Curtain of Green ($2.50) showed brilliance of a sort which seems best likely to crystallize in small forms. A far greater talent than either of these, but also farther from crystallized, was revealed...