Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exports of U.S. cotton, which in 1932 supplied 58% of the world's needs, have been dropping even faster. In the six years before the war, foreign consumption of American cotton fell off considerably as cotton production rose in India, Egypt and Brazil...
...Just before he hung up, he told me he was going to submit some kind of a statement to Congress. . . . He suggested that unless I could cut red tape faster, I'd better go back to the Army...
...Lines chalked up a rare crash (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS),Transcontinental & Western Air hung up a record. A TWA Constellation, with TWA President Jack Frye at the controls and 45 passengers aboard, flew from Los Angeles to New York in 7 hours 27 minutes nonstop last week: 6½ hours faster than most regularly scheduled airliners. Average speed: 329 m.p.h. Within the month, TWA will begin flying Constellations regularly on the route. Proposed time: 10 hours...
...reconverted faster than his brothers, all of whom were also in the service. Franklin Jr., 31, is practicing law in New York City; Elliott, 35, is second vice president of a newly formed company to start a radio station in Camden, Ark.; James, 38, is the salaried director of political organization of the Independent Com mittee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions...
...Craig Rice conceived a child instead of an idea, he would by now have progressed to first grade in school. But the idea has progressed faster. It has already turned into 15 books which have made her a highly successful mystery writer, with Hollywood contracts. And last week it turned into a contract to become editor of her own mystery magazine, the Craig Rice Crime Digest (scheduled to begin publication this spring...