Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans of good will can do more and do it faster than any system of government rationing orders. Speed is vital. ... A reduction of 25% in the present consumption of wheat and wheat products is needed...
Nevertheless, the popularity of Kaye's show has come up faster than any other new program's. On the air for little more than a year, he tied Veteran Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll...
India's Britons recalled the horror stories of 1857, when Army mutineers seized seven of India's cities, including Delhi. Would Indian Army troops revolt again? Already Indian Air Force men had staged sympathy "strikes." Like the Navy mutineers, soldiers demand better pay, better food, faster demobilization. Indian troops, the bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world's trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able...
...week after the end of the steel strike, production of ingots was scheduled at only 268,000 tons, or 15.2% of capacity. Although many a plant was pouring far faster than expected, full production was still three weeks to a month away, at best...
Harvard University has long had a calculator which would do almost any mathematical job. But it was slow; its inner works were like those of an ordinary adding machine. M.I.T. had a faster gadget, but it, too, was largely mechanical. What was needed, said Mauchly and Eckert, was a calculator with no moving parts except the fast-flying electrons inside vacuum tubes. With Army help and money, they built one, in 30 months...