Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cabman John D. Hertz once refused a cool million for a horse named Reigh Count. This year the Hertzes have their reward: a colt that is faster, smarter and shows promise of being greater than their 1928 Derby winner. He is Count Fleet, Reigh Count's three-year...
...high-silhouette Mio tank destroyer, announced with typical fanfare by manufacturers' (General Motors and Ford) publicity men only last month, has failed to stand the test of combat in North Africa. The Army is still seeking a lower, faster...
Last week there was ample evidence that the U.S. services are working with might & main to get out faster dive-bombers, thus overcome the handicap of low speed (199 m.p.h.) which has made the Stuka a sitting duck for fighter craft and flak batteries...
...calm voice speaks: At Zero-minus-thirty the barrage begins. At the same moment the sappers will move for ward. . . . At 10 o'clock the infantry will advance. In quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These are not actors. The faces are childlike rather than grim; be wildered, never fierce. Then the artillery command is barked, shouted, repeated, roared, amplified: FIRE! The barrage has begun...
...Problem. If Messrs. Taft and Parran had made things difficult for the prostitute, why had the syphilis and gonorrhea rate among soldiers & sailors not decreased faster? Army Medical Corps doctors, who have been constantly tightening prophylactic measures, knew it really was going down, noted that it dropped (on the basis of incomplete averages) to an annual rate of 25 per 1,000 in November, December and January. But they knew, too, that they faced a problem spawned by war: nonprofessional prostitution...