Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Port of Necessity. There was no doubt that, once Cherbourg was taken, U.S. and British engineers could have the port usable again in a few days. Within the shelter of the five-mile-long roadstead, even lightering in supplies would be far easier and faster than in the wide-open Bay of the Seine, or in the tiny fishing-village ports opened by Royal Marines...
...General Erwin Rommel's honor was vindicated when a German woman got three months in Aachen concentration camp for remarking: "I had to run faster than Rommel did in Africa...
...probably wouldn't know one from the other if you saw them. Anyway a T.D. is lighter and faster. We started across this big field headed for the woods. I watched the speedometer 45-50-55-60-65, full speed ahead. I saw that woods, believe me I said a prayer. We were right at the edge of the woods and there was a ditch about 20' wide and 6' deep. We landed in the middle of the damn thing, took one bounce and was in the woods. . . . Well we sighted the tanks and they were running...
...York's LaGuardia field with a capacity load of freight and passengers. The huge, 30-ton, four-motored ship landed in Ireland 15 hr. 51 min. later. Average speed : 211 m.p.h. The flight clipped 26 min. from the previous west-east record. Pan American has predicted even faster time of 13 hr. 48 min. to London (TIME, Sept. 6). Use of land planes may lower even this fancy figure...
...talk among Navy men, no longer preoccupied with rosy dreams of inherent Anglo-Saxon superiority, was that the war in the Pacific would be fought to a finish much faster than anyone had thought possible a year...