Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went identical bills amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, lifting its 40?minimum hourly wage to 65? (and to 75?after two years). The work week would drop to 40 hours when 75? was reached. Industry committees, under special circumstances, could drive basic pay rates upward even faster...
Sport stars usually fall faster than they rise, and Gunder (''The Wunder") Hägg fell with a thud on last winter's U.S. tour. One slow time win in five tries was the best he could do, after training on hard surfaces had pounded the spring from his legs. When deflated Gunder got home, he went to Valadalen in northern Sweden, where he had trained in the palmy days of his 4:04.6 and 4:06.2 miles. Over trails quilted with moss and pine needles, he slowly coaxed the fjader (spring) back into his legs...
...arch-rival Arne Andersson as opposition and a heat wave to loosen his muscles, Hägg ran on the ragged edge of the magic four-minute mile. His 4:01.4 was world record time (1.2 seconds better than Andersson's mark made two years ago over the faster Stockholm track...
According to the Army plan, the great mass of troops would reach the U.S. in November, when the railroads must find room for 1,500,000 troops. The Army was caught up in its own efficiency; it was returning troops from Europe to the U.S. some 30% faster than it had expected. In Manhattan, the great grey Queen Elizabeth, the Aquitania and other transports docked last week. In two days, they disgorged 39,695 G.I.s, the biggest disembarkation of the war. As the troops climbed into long lines of rail coaches and Pullmans, and rumbled off to camp, many...
...late to ease the present crisis. Belatedly, this spring, the Army also ordered 1,600 troop cars. WPB has issued high priorities for the manufacture of 664 passenger cars, but the bulk of them will not be delivered till December at the earliest. If deployment continues to move faster than its schedule, the Army will have to dip into the civilian supply again...