Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think of drilling the sheriff, robbing the morning stage or shooting up a saloon. The current crop of gun toters consists of butchers, businessmen and other working folk, intent only on competitive fun as they draw against one another in one of the reformed West's newest and fastest-growing sports...
Time to Digest. In the sense that the drop was the fastest and deepest, the recession was the worst since World War II. The gross national product lost $19.8 billion in six months. It was also the most carefully reported, closely analyzed and best understood of the three postwar recessions. Everyone knew the basic causes: businessmen, expanding at fantastic rates ever since World War II, had to slow down; the economy needed time to sit back and digest all the new capacity. Plant expansion, roaring along at the rate of $37.8 billion in 1957, dropped to $29.6 billion...
...companies are able to go ahead with their expansion, which has made gas the fastest-growing fuel. They are also relieved of the possibility that they might have to refund $225 million in already collected rate hikes, even though the FPC might later approve them...
...automakers, still trying to gauge the market for 1959 models, the news last week was the best of the year. During the last ten days of November, dealers sold an average 18,400 cars a day, the fastest-selling pace of '58. This was 13.7% over the midmonth and some 57% over the first ten days. For December as a whole sales are forecast at 450,000, up from 292,000 in October and an estimated 368,000 in November...
From Portland, Ore. to Piraeus, seamen last week staged a four-day international boycott against ships flying the flags of Panama, Liberia, Honduras and Costa Rica, which, taken together, form the world's fastest-growing merchant fleet (717 in 1951, 1,695 today). The boycott, sponsored by the International Transport Workers' Federation, which claims 200 affiliates in 62 nations with 7,000,000 members, was the start of a campaign to harass owners of "convenience" or "runaway" flag vessels, so called because the PanLibHonCo nations levy negligible taxes, have lower labor and safety standards than...