Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels airport last week, Bayeux, the fastest horse in Belgium, was coaxed into a plane. Two hours later, the plane put down at England's Bovingdon Airport to pick up another passenger. The Aga Khan's grey colt Nathoo, winner of the Irish Derby, was taken aboard. The flying horses were U.S.-bound on a forlorn hope: they were going to meet Citation, the greatest race horse...
...hero, Ralph ("Dash") Inman, 24, and a captain from the age of 19, is grey and tense when the book opens because he has lost a ship. The Running of the Tide is the story of his triumphant vindication in command of another ship (the fastest in the world) on a three-year voyage to Batavia and Japan, salting away more than $100,000 a year...
...Rosen, top Freshman cross-country man last year, proved himself the fastest runner in Friday's cross-country University handicap. Rosen loped over the 3.7 miles along the Charles...
...sleek and streamlined cars that bore little resemblance to the homely soap-box-on-wheels, 149 helmeted youngsters crouched over their steering wheels and rolled earnestly downhill in the eleventh annual Ail-American Soap Box Derby before 65,000 spectators at Akron. Young Donald Strub, 13, rolled the fastest, won a four-year college scholarship...
...Lines offered to pay $25 million towards the cost of a $65 million-plus liner which would be the biggest and fastest ever built in the U.S. Two days later, Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. offered to invest $20 million in two new speed liners for its South American runs, to cost a total of $50 million or more. This week the Maritime Commission is talking over similar proposals with American President Lines, American Export Lines, Grace Line, Farrell Lines and three smaller companies...