Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel clamp beneath a prairie-dry mustache, his thoughts projected far out across a new century big with change. "Too fast?" the driver shouted. Theodore Roosevelt. Vice President of the U.S. and due before dawn to become President of the U.S.. rattled back like a Catling gun: "Go ahead...
...assigned teachers to prepare for college entrance and practical lab work. Said Minister Billères: "You are free to accept or not." Chemistry Whiz Pierre needed no time for qualitative or quantitative analysis. "I accept," said he. "This will allow me to catch up. Then I can pull ahead...
...sales of soft goods, they were still so strong that the U.S. Commerce Department reported January sales ahead of a year ago. All told, said Commerce, U.S. retailers did $15.5 billion worth of business last month to start off 1958 with the greatest selling spree in history and a new record 5.4% better than last year's peak...
JETS TO EUROPE will start flying this fall, months ahead of schedule. Production of 600 m.p.h., 124-passenger Boeing 707-120s is moving so iast that Pan American World Airways will put three planes in service from New York to London (flight time: six hours) and Paris perhaps as early as October...
...Harper graduated from Yale ('38) and joined McCann-Erickson as an office boy. He shot up fast, became president in 1948 at 32. Since then, he has quadrupled the agency's billings (Coca-Cola, Westinghouse, Chesterfield, etc.) to $250 million last year, hopes eventually to push McCann ahead of the No. I agency, J. Walter Thompson...