Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absorbing to horse race followers is the perennial question of which is the fastest three-year-old. Almost as absorbing this year has been the question of which candidate for this honor has been most outrageously cheated of it by misfortune...
...trailers remained virtually static. As late as 1932 they were rarities. Then, suddenly, public resistance broke down. All over the U. S. improved trailers rolled onto the highways. Last week as June and the national vacation season simultaneously got under way, trailer manufacture had become by all odds the fastest-growing U. S. industry, with implications of tremendous significance for real estate and housing...
...tobacco men discovered another and a cheaper method of selling cigarets. They were Reuben Morris ("Rube") Ellis, long time president of Philip Morris & Co. and Leonard Burnham ("Mac") McKitterick. Their cigaret was Philip Morris English Blend, which is now crowding Old Gold for fourth place in the roster of fastest selling U. S. brands. Their company was Philip Morris & Co. which, before they got their bright idea, made cigarets but not Philip Morris English Blends...
With the Queen Mary ready to enter the lists against the Normandie for the title of world's largest, fastest steamship, the Cunard White Star Line last week sold to scrappers the famed old Majestic, which once held both honors...
...Chairman of the Olympic committee, that Randall's Island Stadium, would be the spot for the Olympic finals trails, that everyone is shooting for, and that the dates had been moved up a day to Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11. It is expected to be about the fastest track in the country when it is finally completed...