Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unless shippers hauled coal faster than they ever had before, "once shipments are resumed in quantity, Canadian homes would be chilly next winter...
...boys are tried," Bolles said. "But they were at least faster today than the day before. And we'll be as ready as is humanly possible for the meeting with...
...originally designed as a bomber, with the Army footing the $25,000,000 bill for developing and building the first two models. But Jack Northrop has his eye on the commercial field also. He claims that Flying Wing transports could carry 25% more weight 25% farther and faster than a conventional plane of identical power and weight. And it would be better suited for the upcoming jet motors. Northrop has built and flown four smaller two-motored models of this design. But when the big wing is test-hopped in two months, his theories will get their toughest practical test...
During the war the tremendous volume of rail traffic alone saved the roads' bacon, boosted revenue faster than operating costs. But last year traffic began to slacken, has fallen off so much this year that operating revenues will be 23% below 1945. In this crisis, the roads wanted the new rates effective on May 15, subject to later juggling by the Commission when more complete hearings are held. The proposed new rates would cost shippers another $625 million this year, would take the roads out of the red, give them a net income...
...rocket, a mongrel fabricated by U.S. engineers, Army ordnance men and German scientists from odds & ends of captured German V-2s, will be launched from the White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army knows where the monster is going to crash land, it is not telling...