Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was important news to London women who, heedless of the warning that they must make their present ration coupons last until September, were wearing out shoes faster than ever last week in their biggest shopping spree since 1942. Stores were jammed all day, although most articles were in short supply. So dense were the shopping swarms that it took 20 minutes to move a few blocks on busy Oxford Street...
...bangs down the curtain on much the best part of the show. Though this jive and boogie-woogie romp may have Gilbert & Sullivan spinning in their graves, they can't be spinning any faster than things do on the stage while Pinafore holds it. Thereafter the show gets grounded, along with the showboat. The plot trails off, without even leaving footprints, in all directions; the people go through a lot of boisterous but baffling antics; a dream fantasia nominally involving Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial By Jury gets wedged somewhere into the proceedings...
...Japan. They were torpedo planes, dive bombers, at least three varieties of fighters and the great B-29 Superforts. They struck in daylight and at night from all directions and they hit with everything-six-pound jellied-gasoline fire bombs, high-explosive factory busters and rockets. The tempo grew faster & faster. Latest scores...
...gets the twin-decked Shetlands, B.O.A.C. would temporarily be out in front of its U.S. rivals. The Shetlands, slightly smaller but faster than the Martin "Mars," would be the most de luxe planes ever to cross the Atlantic. Each will carry 70 passengers, will have a cozy cocktail lounge and comfortable berths for the overnight hop to London...
...false hopes. On this morning Winston Churchill seemed almost to confirm the report of unconditional surrender by announcing that Nazi Germany would have to surrender to all three of the Big Three. A White House secretary purred: "This Government has nothing to say." But the rumors flew thicker & faster. Said one report out of Washington: fighting had actually stopped in Europe...