Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary gathering that approved such a modest financial report. It included George J. Mead, director of United Aircraft, who last month told a Senate Committee how his $207 investment zoomed to a paper profit of $7,800,000; Glenn L. Martin, builder of swift Army bombers; Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, builder of Navy airships and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's department of mechanical engineering; Dr. Theodor von Karman, famed Hungarian aerodynamicist in charge of aeronautics research at California Tech; Willis Ray Gregg, new No. 1 U. S. Weatherman; Elmer A. Sperry of gyroscope fame and many...
Everyone knows the rest: the swift, relentless progress of the disease, the evidence of a streptococcic infection, the edematous swelling of the larynx, the painful swallowing, the labored breathing and the agonizing death from suffocation...
...most ghastly yet published in any war book. It is labeled an execution in Kazan. Backed against the rough-hewn wall of a log cabin eleven men, most in underclothes, barefoot, one half-naked, are standing in the snow. The volley (whose echo Authoress Yurlova compares to "an immensely swift flight of pigeons across the yard") has just crashed. The camera's shutter has caught the eleven bullet-riddled victims in the act of falling. One is arched up, head back, on tiptoe. One, with a long beard, has turned sideways, looks like a figure on a Greek frieze...
Thereuoon the 55,000 shareholders made a director of Brother George Hastings Swift, now manager of the Eastern Division. Fourth son of the founder, George Hastings is one of seven Swifts now active in the company...
...others, besides President Gustavus: Board Chairman Charles Henry Swift, 61, husband of Soprano Claire Dux; Vice President Harold Higgins. Swift, 49, only son of the founder who went to college (University of Chicago); Vice President Alden B. Swift, 48, and Manager Louis Franklin Swift Jr., 38, of the Fort Worth plant, sons of onetime Chairman Louis Franklin Swift who retired as a director last year at the age of 71; ard Nathan B. Swift, 22, son of Alden Swift, now working in the Chicago plant...