Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books: if they are more in the company of girls, more addicted to dancing and visiting, thanks are largely due to the automobile. And if they run more risks than in the days of the horse there is the same cause to blame. Cars are made to go faster and faster, many of them are sold on the basis of their speed:--this one "can touch 73 without pushing," that one "can do 50 in second." The manufacturers are not guilty; they must follow the trend of competition. The human nature that makes undergraduates push their cars--as very often...
Several times a week I place orders with New York firms for goods of perishable nature, and the orders, placed by air mail, are delivered in our receiving room exactly 14 days to a day after the order is mailed. Several days faster than you state, and this service is available daily by Mr. Shoup's Southern Pacific as well as the Santa...
...French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...
...market. At Galveston a rail embargo had been declared. "HOLD YOUR WHEAT!" cried the Federal Farm Board in Washington as the fear grew that the lake ports would next be stuffed with an excessive harvest. Said Chairman Legge: "It seems unfortunate to crowd wheat on the market faster than existing facilities can handle it, resulting in cash prices much lower than contract prices for future delivery...
...Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade, so you will learn it all the faster...