Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only known barrier to speed in the air has been pierced. This week the U.S. Air Force was ready to announce that a piloted airplane had broken through the transonic danger zone and that three Americans had flown faster than the speed of sound (760 m.p.h. at sea level), faster than any men had ever flown before...
...widely known," wrote Historian Arthur Bryant in the letters column of the Times, "that . . . man can go no faster than his own trousers. Four times in the past year of hope I have been forced to buy a new pair of braces, and after each occasion the braces have broken irretrievably within three months. I have tried them plastic and I have tried them un-plastic. Can Sir Stafford Cripps, on whom all our hopes are now fixed, tell me what...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...
Hawk-nosed, hawk-fast Sosthenes Behn has run International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. pretty much as a one-man show. Undisputed boss of the world-straddling empire he helped found, he has remained so by moving faster than bosses of governments. In 1941, just a few days before the Nazis moved in, Behn sold l.T. & T's telephone-operating subsidiary in Rumania to the government at a handsome profit. He sold out in Argentina last year for $95 million (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), and he got $88 million in cash and bonds for l.T. & T. properties in Spain...
...nation's problem, said Wilson, was fundamentally "to produce more"-but not at all costs. "Any attempt to raise wage rates faster than the actual increase in hourly productivity," he said, "will only add to further inflation." Rationing and price controls would not increase the supply of goods. They "tend to reduce production" in some lines. The only answer, Wilson declared, was to abolish the 40-hour week, "a heritage of the days of planned scarcity. All of us," said he, "must work longer and harder if we are to achieve the postwar standard of living that we dreamed...