Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortly after World War II began as the only practical means of producing identical copies of TIME simultaneously in different printing plants (our print order had grown too big for one plant to handle) and to speed up our news operation by getting editorial copy into print faster. No one had tried to make the newly developed teletypesetter do what TIME required of it, and we might have made this transition more happily in ordinary times...
...year from investments. To retire on a comparable income today, the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. noted sadly last week, an American needs an income of $13,221. Only one out of a hundred families are that well fixed. In 1947, an American, like the Red Queen, has to run faster & faster to stay where...
...Curry's theory works out, many diseases can be treated by regulating the air that people breathe. It's easy: just send patients to a climate with the right aran content or treat them in aran-conditioned hospitals. Pulmonary T.B.. says Dr. Curry, heals much faster in aran-rich air. He thinks that aran, and the theories developed from it, might also be used in treating schizophrenia, goiter, sterility...
Norwegian and Russian scientists believe that the Gulf Stream, Europe's warm-water heating system, is flowing faster and farther into the north, tempering the climate, driving back the pack ice. In 1909, the Spitsbergen coalfields had an annual shipping period of only 95 mid-season days. In 1946, the last ship got safely away...
...public, long conditioned to the principle that faster travel means greater danger, had all but forgotten the disastrous airline crashes of last winter; U.S. airliners were taking off once again with full passenger lists. Then, like spring lightning, disaster struck, again & again. In 24 hours of the Memorial Day weekend, U.S. commercial aviation lived through the blackest hours of its lively history...