Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After nine weeks of record-setting races that established the sharply banked track as the fastest in the world-and killed two drivers-officials of the spanking-new 27-mile Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway concluded the track was too fast for the powerful Indianapolis-type cars, indefinitely canceled future events for the class. Conceded Driver Tony Bettenhausen: "There ain't any room for mistakes on that track, no place...
...wind blew down the course throughout the regatta, kicking up rough, lumpy waves which made lining the crews up for the start difficult and cut the times low. Fastest time of the day was posted by the J.V.'s at 7:22 over the mile and five-sixteenths Henley distance. Last week the varsity twice rowed the course under...
...slipping circulation of 155,205 (down 20,356 in five years), and an annual deficit of $1,000,000. Last week, edited as though the world began at San Francisco Bay and ended at the Golden Gate, the Chronicle was proudly-and accurately-calling itself the nation's fastest-growing major daily both in ads and circulation...
...fastest automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control...
...prospective increase in U.S. production in the 1960s is almost as much as the combined current production of Europe's two fastest-growing industrial powers, the Soviet Union and West Germany. In 1960 the effect of increasing defense efforts plus rising capital investment will boost gross national product from $475 billion to an even $500 billion. By 1970, ten years later, U.S. production will have soared to $750 billion for the greatest growth in any decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services...