Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity hockey team had to rally twice to beat a fast-starting sextet of former varsity stars by a score of 4 to 2 last night at Watson Rink...
Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers and a vice president of the AFL-CIO, said U.S. production probably still is more than double that of Russia but that economic growth in the Soviet Union is advancing four or five times as fast as this country's has in recent years...
...nation's steelmakers it was the best week in years. Output was up to a scheduled 2,212,000 net tons (from 2,056,000 the week before and 1,459,000 a year ago), and orders were piling in so fast that many companies had to start allocating steel and reopen marginal facilities. U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger Blough reported that orders were being received at a faster rate than at any time in 1958, as Big Steel fired up seven of 14 open-hearth furnaces idled at its Pennsylvania Homestead Works last March. Equally cheering, Blough...
...fast are earnings picking up to match the recovery? From U.S. business last week came fourth-quarter reports that showed profits rising fast enough in many cases to offset the previous slowdown and turn 1958 into a fine year. After limping along 33% behind 1957 for the first nine months, Monsanto Chemical Co. reported the best fourth quarter in history, so good that full-year earnings totaled $1.55 per share, only 7.7% behind last year. Philco's fourth quarter nearly doubled last year's rate. Seeburg Corp. announced 54? a share in the first quarter of its fiscal...
Died. Brother Matthew, 48, frail, balding lay brother of the Roman Catholic Servite order, famed, until he entered a monastery in 1953, as fast-fingered Alto Saxophonist Boyce Brown, a rarely recorded legend of the '30s and '40s, who as a combo colleague of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon helped create Chicago-style jazz, later found time for his horn amidst his humble monastery duties because "good entertainment is good and can be used to serve God''; of a heart attack; in Hillside...