Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stratosphere bombers, flying faster than sound, carrying bomb loads of more than 10,000 Ibs., able to attack any spot on earth and return to a friendly base, are already "a certainty...
...would probably take six games for Hank Greenberg's big bat and Detroit's better balanced pitching staff to do the job. National Leaguers, viewing the 1945 World Series in the same fuzzy light, stoutly insisted that it was a six-game set-up for the younger, faster Chicago Cubs. It seemed more likely that since both clubs had barely squeaked into the series, they would have to play out the full string of seven before either one could win four...
...news sheet tells us that Congressmen are being "troubled" by two questions from their constituents: 1) "Why isn't my Johnny getting home faster?" and 2) "Why are they drafting my Johnny, now that the war is over?" . . . Mother No. 1 should be among the most enthusiastic supporters of a peacetime draft law. Mother No. 2 should thank God that her little darling was born too late to fight in this war, and is only being asked to serve now, in perfect safety, to relieve a man who has, perhaps, already gone through months, or years, of hell...
...ever since: when a general finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
Nevertheless, Congress was on edge to get demobilization going even faster. The public had put the heat on Congressmen, and they passed it on to the War and Navy Departments. Suddenly the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to haul in War Department officials for questioning. When Under Secretary Robert Patterson pointed out that the rate of discharges had already passed 10,000 a day, a Senator replied, "We are getting 10,000 letters...