Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Telephone officials were not dismayed. Said one: "Some of the calls may turn out to be pretty low-key emergencies, but we'll have to accept them in all fairness to the ones which may really save a life, prevent a hold up, or get aid faster to an accident." If the six-month experiment works out, other Bell systems across the country are expected to follow suit. If so, they will only be catching up. Paris has already begun installing pay phones direct access to the operator in emergencies, and Londoners have long able to get help...
...Associated Press editor in Manhattan to study the stock market under the university's economists. Ernest Jones, 66, a bearded Northwestern lumberjack who frittered away a $6,000 bankroll before he heard about the Kentucky program, is studying German and recreational leadership. He figures that younger students learn faster, but argues that "we can be more persistent" and says yearningly: "I'd sure like to go to Oxford...
High above the traffic's boom and deep below the granite surface, New York relentlessly carries on the task of renewing itself. To keep up with the pace, Manhattan alone will spend $1 billion this year, and no city on earth can build faster, taller, bigger or better. Whole avenues are changing as outmoded structures come tumbling down and stores cheerfully bid their customers goodbye with placards: "We'll be back next year, right here in the new building." Never were the signs of change more evident than this summer...
...Even Faster. Operating every three hours during the day, a fast train shuttle could cut the time of the 142-mile New York-Albany trip by a third, to not much more than the two hours it takes by air. The probable cost: $5, or $1.78 less than the present train fare, and about $8 less than the price of a plane ticket. Special high-speed trains now being developed by the Budd Co. and United Aircraft may roll up passenger traffic-and profits-even faster...
...spending two or three years ahead of the actual outlays. "Tax and depreciation incentives created the boom in the first place," said Chairman Willard F. Rockwell of Pittsburgh's Rockwell-Standard Corp. "If they cut down the investment credit they'll be in a slump much faster than they expect...