Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman distance medley relay team won their event easily, with a team composed of Captain Harry Rich, Don Kirkland, Bob Knapp, and Mark Mullin. The two-mile relay team placed second to Holy Cross with a time of 8 min., 2 sec., with Dave Brahms registering a fast...
...that the big quiz shows have been found wanting and the big quizmasters have found subpoena servers waiting, neither the clerk with the photographic memory nor the student with the encyclopedic mind has much of a chance to turn a fast TV dollar. Almost the only quizzes left are the small-payoff contests that the trade calls "peanut" shows. But this week, after four months on the air, Air Force Lieut. James Astrue will have proved that, given time, tenacity, and a modest amount of information, a man can still amass an astonishing amount of peanuts...
...ability are encouraged to take exams that will let them skip routine college courses. Last week, deep in plans for improving his academy, Headmaster Kemper explained his purpose-to meet "an era of unparalleled rapidity of change with new ideas, new attitudes, and new techniques and tools, while holding fast to the enduring values of the past...
Aside from Buick's decline and Pontiac's surge (Plymouth's drop was largely strike caused), the big car surprise of 1959 is the fast pace of the skillfully restyled Ford against the flashy new Chevy. With a strike at G.M. to give it an initial lead, Ford took off running, has sold something like 500,000 cars for the model year so far, and still leads by 30,000 units. Chevy is creeping up, but it will have to do better than February's slim margin to hold its 1958 title of No. 1 seller...
Aggressive Acoustica is an example of how fast an ultrasonics firm can grow. In 1955 Acoustica's young (now 38) President Robert L. Rod set up shop in a boathouse, landed six contracts for some $8,000 worth of ultrasonic cleaners. Since then, Acoustica's sales have increased, on the average, six times every year. For the fiscal year ended last Feb. 28, sales hit $4,750,000, with earnings of 50? per share, v. 8? in 1957. Stock issued at $1 per share in 1956 was selling around $25 per share last week. To boost earnings this...