Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington finally made formal announcement of a fact that had already leaked: the Bell rocket plane XS-1 had flown "much faster than sound."* The exact speed, said Symington, is "an interesting figure...
...first man to fly faster than sound in the XS-1 was Air Force Captain Charles Yeager. By now, four others have done it: Major G. E. Lundquist and Captain James P. Fitzgerald of the Air Force, and NACA Test Pilots Herbert Hoover† and Howard Lilly, who was recently killed in a crash. These five had the strange experience of outflying the roar of their own rocket motors...
...economy seemed to warrant the rise. Overall profits were well up from last year's record peak. U.S. industrial production, which had slipped a bit during the spring, was climbing again. Backlogs of orders were building up in some industries faster than production could consume them. And U.S. employment, now soaring above 58,000,000, was expected to be greater than ever by midsummer...
...fast-stepping retail world, few men had moved faster than handsome, Swedish-born Walter Hoving. At 30 he was vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.. at 34 vice president and sales manager of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.. and at 38 chairman of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor department store...
...municipal coddling with a big, snazzy parking area under the Common, and more than ever it seems as though the College is on the wrong side of the Charles. Here, the battle for car space is fierce and unrelenting. Local policemen are tossing off tickets to violators faster than candidates for the Republican nomination utter cliches. But across the river, in what is swiftly becoming paradise on earth, Model Ts will nestle side by side with Cadillacs, in ample space and perfect safety...