Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present time, Bryant explained, the number of foreign publications purchased by Harvard is so much greater, and its cataloguing process so much faster than that of the Library of Congress, that the University finds it necessary to do all its own cataloguing, thus duplicating much of the work done in Washington...
...front-line airstrips. It will make possible direct flights from the U.S. to any trouble spot in the world, also has enormous potential as a commercial carrier that could transport both passengers and air cargo on international flights at much lower fares than at present. It will fly 30% faster (550 m.p.h.) than Russia's huge AN-22, which is only a turboprop, carry twice the payload. Ten C-5As. could have handled the entire Berlin airlift, which required more than 140 lumbering...
...estimation, was best in the show. Dressed in the dark suit, conservative tie, button-down shirt, and easy smile that every gentile Southern male puts on before breakfast and takes off in bed, Carter floated about, a bit taller than the others, laughing louder, slapping harder, and drinking faster. He could have pinched any skirt in the place (and did pinch a few). He danced tricky dance steps. He harmonized with the calypso band. Never looking, he plucked a bourbon-on-the-rocks from a silver tray and swung the glass to his lips. It was the same involuntary motion...
...Caterpillar Tractor have borrowed tens of millions of dollars. The costs are steep -even for prime borrowers, little money is available in Europe for less than 7%, v. about 5% in the U.S. These premiums stand to cut the U.S. companies' foreign earnings, which have been growing faster than domestic earnings. To make borrowing easier, Dow Chemical has bought an interest in an Amsterdam bank, soon will open a wholly-owned bank in Zurich...
...Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig, Oktoberfest today is an excuse for games, gourmandising and, among Bavarians, whose per capita annual beer consumption is 218 quarts, for quaffing the amber Märzenbier.* Seven big beer tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear a 50-piece brass band and watch chesty Westphalian stallions with blue velvet and leather harness and silver nameplates drag in more kegs...