Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, John Wesley Snyder endeared him self to all & sundry by his swift cutting of Government red tape, his shrewd spending of some $3 billion of U.S. war money...
...turn on the Nazi torture rack. The Germans had willed that the city of 2,000,000 Austrians should die as Budapest had died - slowly, to gain a little more time for Naziism. But this week it seemed that the Red Army would foil that murder by swift conquest. Vienna might escape death, though it would be gravely wounded...
...Patton was playing his favorite role. He was the swift, slashing halfback of Coach Eisenhower's team. His quarterback, General Omar N. Bradley, had set up a climax play and had called Patton's signal. Halfback Patton had had superb blocking from Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army. Now the star open-field runner was ripping into the secondary defense...
...Patton legend extends into other armies. There are "Patton men" in the U.S. First, Seventh, Ninth and Fifteenth Armies, who believe Patton's aggressive spirit and swift movement should set the tone and pace for all U.S. arms. Some try to imitate him. Keener appraisers do not undervalue Patton's fiery leadership, his dash and imagination as an army commander. But they believe that George Patton is in exactly the right job now, running his army at the front rather than a team of armies from group headquarters...
...from packers, the court held that packers who handle only fresh beef (about 15% of the industry) are losing money in the price squeeze, losses which are not made up by the Government's subsidy. Something should be done for them.* But the others, notably the Big Four (Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy) are making up losses on meat through the sale of byproducts, tallow, glue...