Word: swiftness
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...special pepping up, and a special tax cut for morale reasons would interfere with the plans for basic tax revision later on. Still another possibility was to speed up federal spending for public works and defense orders. But it was decided that such a step-up would not have swift enough effect to shore up the stock market. In short, the sense of the meeting was that for the moment the best thing to do was nothing...
...markets everything from soup to nuts, has 75,000 employees and 180 factories in 34 countries. With annual sales of $1.5 billion, it is the world's fifth biggest corporation outside the U.S.-though only two-thirds as large as the biggest U.S. food processor, Chicago's Swift...
...swift little thoughts are not entirely a cadence of despair. Some are funny. Some show a very individual and perplexing insight. Others are uninspired. Occasionally, there is a surprising glimmer of positivism. Random samples...
...Larry Swift...
Wings spread as it wheels through high, slow arcs, wings tucked back as it plummets in a swift hunting dive, the peregrine falcon is a picture of functional perfection. No airplane has yet come close to copying its easy versatility. But aeronautical engineers have never stopped trying, and the Department of Defense is convinced that government scientists have finally turned the trick. Last week leaders of the U.S. aircraft industry were locked in fierce competition for the privilege of building a "variable geometry" fighter that can stretch its wings at low speeds during take-offs and landings, or fold them...