Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey wanted to move the date up a few years. He had now laid the foundations of his campaign, had built the walls and roofed them. With three weeks to go he was busily decorating the rooms with devastating caricatures of the New Deal. He was working faster, though just as surely, with an eye to his own timetable and to the blueprint of his campaign. For his house must be built and furnished in time for the American people to buy it, before...
...report contends that production tricks learned in war work cannot be readily applied to peacetime jobs; i.e., learning how to make cannons faster and better does not help make autos faster and better...
...Technical Service Command last week. It is a rotary wing, shaped much like an ordinary maple seed, that twirls to earth without benefit of "umbrella" or rigging. The bulbous plastic container, hitched to the wooden blade, can hold 65 lbs. The rate of fall is slightly faster than a parachute's, but the "Sky Hook" is not subject to the wind drift that makes parachuting of supplies inaccurate from high (safe) altitudes...
...Faster than Ports. Last week, on D-plus-100, more than 100 freighters waited off the Normandy shore to be unloaded. With the aid of ducks the ships disgorged and turned away more quickly than if they had been in a modern port. LSTs, 50 and 60 at a time, beached themselves at high tide, were left stranded as the 19-ft. tide receded, opened their mouths and were unloaded before another tide floated them...
...Cape Verde Islands and the West Indies, waves of heated air molecules begin to rise from the warm sea. As cooler molecules rush in from the sides to take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine on the turbulent sea below...