Word: faster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market value of the General Investment Fund has grown faster than expenses, from $108 million in 1929 to approximately $595 million by Sept. 30 of this year. In 1958-9 the University received $28,516,505 in gifts for capital and an additional $9,669,260 for current...
AIRLINE PILOTS OVER 60 will be grounded after March 15 by the FAA, which believes it hazardous to have older pilots command "the bigger and faster jets, carrying more passengers over longer routes." The Air Line Pilots Association will fight the ruling in the courts...
...final pre-Thanksgiving week hit 182 on the 1947-49 index, up from 169 in 1958. Only 5% ahead of 1958 at the beginning of November, department-store sales were 6% ahead in the second week of the month, 8% ahead in the third. Other signs of a faster beat in the economy...
General Motors Corp., hardest hit, with 215,000 workers laid off and all production at a halt, was moving faster last week than even its own executives expected. G.M. expects to have all divisions operating at full speed by Dec. 18. Chevrolet plans to have 63,000 workers back, producing 40,000 cars a week, by about Dec. 16. The 13 Chevy assembly plants are shooting to break the alltime record of 188,410 cars produced last December. Chrysler Corp. finally had to shut down this week for lack of steel, but plans to start up again next week, will...
...square foot "F"-shaped structure with a glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...