Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow-moving Halifaxes and Stirlings and use only speedy Lancasters. The Lancasters did not tarry. Launching a new, concentrated kind of attack, they loosed 1,120 tons in a brief and terrible 20 minutes. Within the week 69 British planes fell under the Luftwaffe's frantic defense. But faster than autumn leaves, the bombs continued to fall on a city marked for revenge...
...world with such useful things as: spectacle lenses that will cut out bright-light reflections for their wearer and be almost invisible to others; glareless car windshields; more visible dashboards and instrument panels; store windows, showcases, picture frames, watch crystals and clockfaces so clear that the glass is invisible;-faster camera lenses, producing sharper pictures; clearer movies and television...
Despite the fact that Bible publishers have upped their output (the American Bible Society last year printed 5,371,293 Bibles for U.S. readers, a 21% increase over 1940), men & women in the armed forces and civilians at home have snapped up Bibles faster than they have come from the presses...
...Semyon Lavochkin is Yakovlev's chief rival in the fighter field. A Jewish teacher's son, he is tough, unsmiling. His new plywood fighter, the Reds say, has a faster takeoff, greater punch, a remarkably easy control. The name-handle, LAGG, is compounded of LA for Lavochkin, GG for his aides, Gorbunov & Gudkov...
That figure is $36.6 billion more than the total amount of goods, services and taxes which U.S. citizens and corporations were able-or forced-to buy and pay for, v. a $28.7 billion difference last September. Thus the "inflationary gap" (up 27%) widened at a faster rate than the national income rose...