Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit was typical. There, 4,500 struck at Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., forcing the Ford Motor Co. to send 30,000 home and shut down temporarily. A strike of 500 at Hudson Motor Car Co. threw another 6,000 out of work. All across the nation, strikes mushroomed faster than the War Labor Board could keep track of them, much less track down the reasons for all of them...
...Hollywood, where marriages wither even faster than reputations, a spoiled little rich girl named Barbara Hutton dropped Husband No. 3 last week. The whole thing took four minutes. She would have made it in three, if she had not taken time out to pose for the news photographers...
...Nazi Model 21 could stay submerged nine-tenths of the time. More amazing still: it achieved the speed of 18 knots under water-faster than it could travel on the surface...
...Supersonic wind-tunnels for studying missiles (like the V2) which move far faster than sound. The Navy is dismantling one such tunnel, will bring...
This whopping need exists despite the fact that the U.S. has been training doctors faster during the war than it ever did in peace. In 1943, all qualified students enrolled in medical and dental schools were signed up as Army or Navy trainees. Taking an accelerated three-year course, these military students (and a sprinkling of 4-Fs, women and foreigners) have been pouring through the schools so fast that between July 1942 and July 1948 the U.S. will have trained 40,000 new doctors-9,000 more than the preceding six years...