Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Vickery, with an eye on the postwar seaways, thinks the U.S. should stop building Liberties and go to work on the Maritime Commission's Victory ship (13½ ft. longer, 5 ft. more beam, 4.6 knots faster). All summer he has pushed this program. All summer he has run smack into Willie Gibbs...
Hopes v. Facts. Admiral Vickery had history on his side. After World War I, the big U.S. fleet of mass-produced Hog Island freighters gathered rust and barnacles while other nations, with faster, better ships, took over the world's trade...
Wrote Christian Science Monitor's Joseph G. Harrison from Cairo: "Some form of federation ... is approaching faster than many persons believe. ... If the present attempt fails, other attempts will succeed. . . . Modern economy and politics demand international cooperation on a regional basis...
Paced by Bill Hulse in the first and second quarters, Gunder pressed him closely, his lean legs working with the mechanistic precision of the connecting rods in an idling aircraft engine. "Faster, faster," he whispered to Bill, who was whirling along in his loping gait for all he was worth...
...shown on the run-out table of the Defense Plant Corporation's new sheet mill, operated by Alcoa at McCook, Ill. The sheet is on its way to make airplane skins. The new plant, one of the world's largest, can roll aluminum more than 50 times faster than prewar equipment...