Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia grabbed the chance the West had fumbled. In Soviet Armenia, population has increased faster than in any other Soviet Republic; industrial progress has been so swift that Armenia came to be called Moscow's "favorite child." Russia's armies today include 300,000 Armenian soldiers, 50 Armenian generals. And Moscow has publicly blessed Armenian patriots' claim to the Kars and Ardahan districts of eastern Turkey...
...shuffled in & out of room 201 at nearby Fort Defiance's Government hospital. The man in the peppermint-candy pajamas knew the crisis facing his people. The reservation's 17 million arid, eroded and exhausted acres could not support its 55,000 people much longer. (Navajos, multiplying faster than whites, are the largest Indian nation...
Then the scientist nodded to TIME's correspondent. "Turn the switch." The switch looked like a valve on a gas stove, it turned easily. Control rods (probably of cadmium) clanged into place. They soaked up the vital neutrons faster than they were produced from the uranium. The pile stopped...
...travel by plane, a passenger must now sacrifice his comfort, his sleep, and often his baggage. He must endure inconveniences that rise to the level of punishment. And sometimes he finds he could have got there faster by train...
Growing Pains. The cause of all this bedlam: 1) the sudden boom in commercial aviation; 2) airlines' management. Personnel policies are antiquated, pay is low and big-business methods are virtually unknown. Some executives believe that bigger, faster planes will solve things, forgetting that they will only cause bigger problems at obsolete airports. Rather than use the partial benefits of radar in its present form, the industry is holding out for an all-purpose system, which is at least five years away...