Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After nine weeks of record-setting races that established the sharply banked track as the fastest in the world-and killed two drivers-officials of the spanking-new 27-mile Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway concluded the track was too fast for the powerful Indianapolis-type cars, indefinitely canceled future events for the class. Conceded Driver Tony Bettenhausen: "There ain't any room for mistakes on that track, no place...
Last year De Henriquez got government permission to house his mushrooming stockpile in three abandoned army barracks in southeast Rome. To move it all from Trieste is fast becoming a logistical feat worthy of Hannibal himself. Last week his rented Roman villa was stuffed with incoming crates. He planned to fly some of his airplanes down under their own power. His chief problem: how to man and sail his naval destroyer around Italy, and to find a place to moor it when it arrived...
...with three times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said Dr. Schulert, "since the growing fetal skeleton reflects the diet of the mother," and the fast-growing fetus is especially vulnerable to damage from radiation...
Many of the reports issued by brokers present sober, useful information. But there are also many "blue-sky" writeups that promise great things and fast-buck operators who spread rumors. "The same wild rumor that moved a stock one-eighth a year ago seems to move it eight points today," says Paul Windels Jr., Manhattan district boss...
Much of the responsibility for wildly gyrating stocks can be blamed on the exchange and brokers. A new investor's first purchase may be a staid mutual fund. Now, according to Mutual Fund Specialist Arthur Wiesenberger, fast-talking customers' men have been switching customers out of mutual funds into highly speculative stocks with the promise of quick killings. Many a customers' man will offer ways to get around the 90% margin requirements. Customers arrange loans with "specialized finance houses," which permit buying with only 10% down. It is this "easy money" that has caused some rapid rises...