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Word: fastest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time was when short, swart, flamboyant Harry Stutz roared around the country in his racer, brought back cups to Indianapolis to show that the Stutz was the fastest U. S. car. In 1916 Manhattan financiers made him a good offer for his company, and he sold out. Stutz Motor Car Co. of America Inc. had 13 resounding deficits during the next 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Going, Going, Gone | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...setting up as the monarchy of Cafeteria, forming an unhappy alliance with Mussolini & Hitler. With tunes that didn't seem too reminiscent, chorines that didn't sing too deep, ingénues that didn't look too muscular, So Proudly We Hail spurted fastest when it shook off its plot and bounced into revue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Proof of the Pudding | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...takes over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost him $800, cut the fastest steamship time by 35 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Imperial's Empire | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

William E. Kondall '40, fastest freestyler in the British Empire, and king of distance men at Harvard and in the United States, will leave Cambridge at the end of the current term to take a position with the Coca-Cola Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kendall, Great Free-Styler, to Leave Harvard in June for Business Career | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...position again and one good way to forestall it is to make his $364,000,000 company less dependent upon labor. Since this is also the path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pickled Snake's Tongue | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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