Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Sawdust. Behind Boise Cascade's swift success is its president, Robert V. Hansberger, 43, a balding, farm-born graduate of the University of Minnesota and Harvard Business School ('47). Hansberger, who looks a little like Yul Brynner, was summoned to rescue struggling Boise Cascade in 1957 on the strength of his success in setting up and profitably running his own small paper mill in Oregon. With sales of $53 million, Boise Cascade was then too small to build a pulp plant to utilize the waste wood chips and sawdust that it was simply burning up. Hansberger merged...
...What if Swift and Armour were to give up packing meat and start selling block-frozen string -beans instead? What if Goodyear and Firestone were to stop producing bulging pneumatic rotundities that tread softly and squeal raffishly? And what if Boeing-maker and creator of the 707s-were to open its vast doors only to release a string of skinny, canvas-covered, piston-driven biplanes...
...strikes with the swift, clawed fury of a pouncing cat-and jet pilots call it by that name. CAT (for clear air turbulence) can swat a jetliner down a mile in a minute flat, paste passengers to the ceiling, and rip the wings from light planes. Many CAT victims go uncounted because up to now CAT has been invisible...
Clear air turbulence often occurs where two air masses, moving in opposite directions, grind together. Unlike storm fronts, which present a large, moist target for regular storm-tracking radars, this abrupt change of wind direction, or "wind shear," usually goes unremarked by electronics. Last year RCA technicians tracking swift Army missiles on ultrahigh-frequency (above 5,000 megacycles) C-band radar noticed that they were receiving considerable "backscatter"-unexpected, and apparently unexplainable, echoes-during a clear-sky exercise. They wondered if they were on the track...
...October 1962, when he set up a naval blockade that forced Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles that the Soviets had sneaked into Cuba. During that dramatic showdown, which both Kennedy and Khrushchev later said had brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear war, Kennedy said: "This secret, swift and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles-in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and the nations of the Western Hemisphere-is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo, which cannot be accepted by this country if our courage...