Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern U.S. baby grows much faster, will probably wind up bigger than his parents. In last week's Nutrition Reviews, Yale's George Raymond Cowgill cast doubt on the advantage of big babies: 1) Is there any advantage in being big? 2) What if quick growth shortens life? 3) Or, if quick growth lengthens life, does prolonged vigor go with the longevity...
...size and in speed of construction, No. 6 furnace set new records. The Russians like to say that they followed "the methods of Henry Kaiser" in building No. 6; it was assembled five times faster than the Russians had ever built a furnace before, finished in less than six months. Its builders' greatest pride: it was made entirely of Soviet materials. It will produce enough pig iron each month for 1,500 tanks...
...better known, are the bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
...Faster. Thin, shy Sergio Osmena, vice president of the Philippines, dismissed talk of a long war in the Pacific. Said he: "I don't believe the Japs can last long after Germany is defeated. The combined might of the United Nations will be more than Japan can withstand...
...line ship operators blinked, reread the report, blinked again: 6% of the dollar volume of U.S. imports last year arrived by air. Another eye opener: during the dreary months when submarines were sinking Allied ships faster than Henry Kaiser and others could build them, shipments in big-bellied Army & Navy air transports were 20 times safer than those on the seas...