Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia, they have the fastest quintet in the League, by a long shot. In the game up here, they managed to snake a man past Gray and Boys so quickly that the latter were never able to shift, and consequently the Lions had a man free under the basket most of the game...
...rather forlorn week is in prospect for the Feslermen, as on Wednesday they meet Columbia's League-leading five, the most sensational and fastest shifting team seen in the circuit for some time, and on Friday they encounter Brown which, until its defeat at the hands of the Elis on Saturday, had amassed a total of ten consecutive wins...
...Fastest U. S. transport plane is the Cord Vultee, an eight-passenger single-motored (Wright Cyclone) all-metal low-wing monoplane introduced few months ago on American Airlines. Month ago Jimmy Doolittle flew a Vultee to a new coast-to-coast transport record of 11 hr. 59 min. (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week an obscure American Airlines pilot named Leland S. Andrews climbed into the Doolittle Vultee at Los Angeles, streaked non-stop to Washington to deliver a box of orchids to Mrs. Roosevelt. After a 12-minute stopover he took off again, hopped to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett...
...with one spare to fill in the gaps, while the Crimson will rotate three lines and still be able to throw in Dewey and Duffey as relief. It has been this fast turnover with constant rest periods that has allowed Stubbs to develop his furious attack. Hockey is the fastest game on the rolls and a large supply of replacements will swing the scoring in almost every case...
...account for one-half of Eastman's unrevealed sales. Other big Eastman film outlets are amateur cinema, X-ray and professional still photography - all of which have grown amazingly since the War. Probably its biggest single source of profit is the foreign business, which is worldwide. But fastest-growing division is cellulose acetate, which Eastman uses as a base for safety film but also markets in various forms including Kodapak, competitive with Du Pont Cellophane...