Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shots were coming so fast and the whole thing was over so quickly I couldn't have counted the shots if I had wanted...
Workers told off pickets to guard the plants against sabotage, were fed by wives and Communist committees. This superb idea spread fast. Hotchkiss (automobiles, machine guns), Amiot (airplanes) and Hispano (airplane engines, armaments, munitions) granted the demands. Some munitions manufacturers hurriedly shooed their men out of the plants on forced vacations...
Automobile drivers have their own language. In it "heavy-footed" means not slow but fast. Lead-footed Louis Meyer, who vowed to quit driving after winning his second Indianapolis race, followed his usual tactics of tailing dangerous opponents, sprinting when they stopped for gas. At 360 miles, last year's winner, Kelly Petillo, who had hired a crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer...
...actually cheaper than it would be to print and distribute greenback currency. Meantime, commercial bankers have had a curious change of heart about Government bonds. Instead of predicting the imminent collapse of Government credit through New Deal spending, they are now buying long-term Treasury issues as fast as they can. Government bonds have been pushed to record highs and the bankers are convinced that they will stay there, if not go higher. Some people are even talking of the day when the cautious investor will have to be satisfied with a 2% return on his money...
Several more coats of paint have recently been added to Lowell House's blue dome. A few years ago an expedition was sent to Italy to ferret out some kind of color-fast blue pigment for the bell tower; no results were forthcoming, and as a result new coats have had to be added each year. There are twenty in all at present...