Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand for almost everything was still enormous (retail trade was 22-26% higher last week than a year ago). But in many lines, notably soft goods, it was slackening faster than anticipated...
...optimistic, Minister Howe thought the practical everyday application of atomic energy was only about five years off. "The science is in about the same position today as electricity occupied when Faraday discovered the electromagnet about 100 years ago . . . but practical application of this energy will probably move faster than in Faraday's time...
...using the shallow-plowing one-way disc. With the disc a farmer can cover double the acreage plowed in the same time. Nearly all of the farmers are now using discs. To avoid pulverizing the soil and laying the prairies open to soil drifting, they should not be pulled faster than 5½ miles an hour...
...wartime real-estate boom, prices soared faster and higher on the West Coast than anywhere else (TIME, April 29). But last week there were signs that the boom, which might be a barometer for the rest of the U.S., was leveling...
Every afternoon, millions of U.S. youngsters tune in a radio program that begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...