Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more thoroughbred blood would improve his ranch horses. He came back from the race tracks at Louisville and Saratoga with two carloads of thoroughbreds, and put them to "improving the breed." His horses turned out to have bigger chests and heavier forelegs than Kentucky breeders liked. They also ran faster than Kentuckians liked. The King Ranch's Assault won the triple crown-the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont...
Whether the trend toward monopoly had been checked for long was open to question. The department merely noted that smaller companies usually grow faster during booms-and would shrink faster if a recession or depression comes along...
Quality Sprinters are rarely a scarce commodity around the blockhouse basement; because they condition faster from football fan fatigue. But this year the short distance staff is not quite up to the pace of the rest...
...Built by Douglas, the Skyrocket is a swordfish-shaped, back-swept-winged sister ship of the Navy's Skystreak, present holder of the world's speed record (650.6 m.p.h.). Douglasmen hoped that it would make air history by breaking through the sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis, the McDonell Aircraft Corp. put the world's first ramjet helicopter* through its paces for the U.S. Air Force. In test flights, the 310-lb. "flying bike" readily lifted an additional...
Communist raiders were tearing up railway lines faster than they could be replaced, almost faster than the news could be relayed to the next strong point.* There were some bright spots: the Government had driven the Communists from their main seaside base, in Shantung; had won some local gains in the north. These, however, were details; the important news from China was that the Communists were winning the civil war, and would go on winning it unless Nanking found new sources of men, money and arms...