Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emptiness. German nationalism is growing in Bavaria, and growing fast. What has been called "democratization" is proceeding slowly. Every German political leader with whom I have talked here -Socialist or Christian Democrat or Separatist-acknowledges these two facts at once. The future, not of Bavaria alone but all Germany, and perhaps all Europe, depends heavily on whether the U.S. reacts to these facts with only a shudder, or with intelligence and understanding...
...industry grew fast, but Love's company grew faster. He kept buying small new plants (he now has 81), thus kept abreast of the industry's improvements without too big an outlay. Rayon's recent rate of growth has far exceeded both wool and cotton. Since 1940 the rayon industry has grown 238%, Burlington's sales have risen...
Infant's Progress. Burlington's Spencer Love, a fast-moving, fast-thinking man who can keep thousands of details of his company's operations in his head, had earned his cockiness. He had parlayed a $3,000 shoestring into a textile empire that last year grossed $288 million (and netted $31.2 million). Born & bred at Harvard (where his father taught mathematics), Love came out of World War I a 23-year-old major. He took his $3,000 in savings to Gastonia, N.C., his father's home town, and got a $120-a-month...
Into Washington National Airport last week flew a fat-bellied Boeing Stratocruiser, the first to be delivered to a commercial airline. With a Pan American Airways pilot at the controls, the plane had hopped from San Francisco in fast time (6 hrs. 22 min.) to keep a christening date with Margaret Truman...
Then Tom Masterson met Yale's Knobloch, and scored four fast touches to Knobloch's one. One more touch would have won the meet, but Knobloch pulled up to 4 to 4. Suddenly there was a loud clanging of swords, and the three judges got into a huddle to figure out what happened...