Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Unknown. Fermi ran the test. At 9:54 a.m. he gave an order. A whining motor withdrew the automatic control rod. The Geiger counters on the instrument panel clicked a little faster; a pen drew a slightly higher curve on a strip of paper...
There is no "raise" involved in the current TWA controversy. It concerns only the establishment of a pay scale for Constellations and DC-45, which have been flown only recently commercially. The Connies gross 32 ½ more tons than the DC-35 and are 100 miles an hour faster. We are earning for TWA 8co% more than the pay load of the DC-35. We are asking less than 1% of that added revenue for flying this heavier, faster, more productive equipment. The salary should be commensurate to the job performed...
...Newfoundland you can start an argument over confederation with Canada faster than you can say Annieopsquotch.* Independent Newfoundlanders voted against becoming a Canadian province in 1869, sang political ditties like "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf," stubbornly snowed under every party that proposed confederation...
...highway, put-putting toward Vienna, was a motorcycle carrying Herman Reitman, well-known Viennese motorbike rider, and a woman companion, Katharina Grünhut. A light sedan going faster in the same direction came up from behind and apparently started to pass. Then inexplicably the vehicles swerved together, the motorcycle bounced off to the side of the road, where its two passengers lay groaning. A few passers-by ran up to them. The sedan braked to a stop farther down the road and the driver climbed out and walked back. Taking a hasty glance at the scene, he drew...
...hospitals and health centers (only five of Colorado's 63 counties have full-time health departments), no statewide pasteurization of milk, inadequate inoculation of children, pollution of streams and irrigation ditches. Snorted Dr. Sabin: "We think of our state as a health resort. Yet we're dying faster than people in most states...