Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pravda cocked an eyebrow recently at the Great Sewing Machine Scandal. A decade ago, the Soviet Union was short on sewing machines, so Marxism's planners pressed the "on" button. Immediately factories began competing to see who could turn out more sewing machines faster. Result: Russian seamstresses are awash in a sea of treadles and bobbins. "We have more than 150,000 machines accumulated here," complained a worker at the Podolsk Sewing Machine Factory, "and still we are making thousands of them every...
...enough to give a submarine skipper the shakes: the U.S. Navy announced that it is adding to its arsenal the Mark-46 torpedo, a solid-fuel missile with an underwater speed faster than the newest nuclear subs. Thanks to the wonders of computerdom, the Mark-46 also has a built-in, all-but-infallible killer's instinct...
...make a thorough study of the possibilities. The test borings and surveys would take about four years. Once a route is decided upon and a final treaty written, construction will get underway. If possible, the U.S. would like to use nuclear explosives to dig the trench. Nukes are faster than dynamite, run one-tenth the cost, and would hold the price for the Colombia canal to $1.2 billion, the Nicaragua-Costa Rica canal to $1.24 billion, or the southern Panama route to $500 million...
Hull is the N.H.L.'s fastest skater (a Canadian research institute clocked him at 28.3 m.p.h. on a typical dash down the ice), and its hardest shooter: his left-handed slap shot zips toward the goal at 118 m.p.h.-19 m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved...
...this month raised its bid to grab more of the world wide computer market now dominated by International Business Machines. In its most costly move since entering the field in 1958, RCA brought out a new line of computers (called Spectra 70s) with integrated circuits that it claims are faster and cheaper to make than the transistor circuits that run most computers. Next, it signed a ten-year agree ment with West Germany's giant electronics and computer company, Siemens & Halske, to swap patent licenses and technical data in a bid to compete with General Electric in Europe...