Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engine can accelerate the behemoth up to 63 m.p.h. in 9.7 seconds, faster than some sports cars, and the four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
...propotion to the screen's radius. With a screen speed of four rotations per second, Ying has produced winds up to seven miles per hour near the whirl. While the rotating screen sucks air outwards, the rising heat of the fire pulls air toward the flame; at speeds faster than four revolutions per second, the screen's pull is greater than that of the fire and the whirl degenerates into a normal short flame...
...each project, the committee has had to send Washington monstrous applications, ranging from 40 to 50 pages long. Some observers remark that the projects should have been selected faster, and the applications prepared sooner, in order to assure federal funds for the summer...
...committee's diversity provides a basic strength, its members argue. "Sure, the City could have moved a bit faster," one if them says, "but you'd have had to do it with a few individuals running the whole show. ..You might get your money faster, but you'd have missed something. You would have to get the community interested in a program that had been planned for them...
...Norfolk & Western to health as its president, was brought over to parent Pennsy in 1963. He has traveled up to 5,000 miles a week by plane and private railroad car, personally calling on coal and grain shippers to push the idea of "unitized" trains to haul their shipments faster and more cheaply...