Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Court conception of navigability, while multi-shaded, defines a navigable river in law as one which is navigable in fact.) The New had not been used for water commerce since the '90's; a great part of it was as unnavigable as a river can be: rocky, swift, extremely shallow...
...liberation, castration and feasting was at hand. The British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized or burned important Italian supplies...
Flat-topped, lopsided but swift as a cruiser, an aircraft carrier at work is an ugly, color-splashed, noisy inferno. Launching her planes from the crowded flight deck, she throbs with the rumble of warming airplane engines. Hooded men in brilliant yellow, red, blue and green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle...
...madhouse sound & fury, a U. S. Navy carrier is an outstanding example of the smooth coordination of man and complicated machine. It is also a powerful weapon for long-range reconnaissance, for delivery of swift and crushing raids from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied...
...second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered in one room...