Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that single point, just plain Pat and just plain U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland are in complete agreement. California is the second largest (13,600,000, against New York's 15,800,000) and fastest growing (at a breakneck clip of 500,000 a year since 1950) state in the Union. In its infinite variety, in professionally sophisticated San Francisco and professionally unsophisticated Los Angeles, in the big cotton growers of the Imperial and San Joaquin valleys and the lettuce growers of the Salinas Valley, in Okies and Arkies come to suburban prosperity, in oil drillers and gold diggers...
...utilize the sun-seared, flash-flooded llanos, barren plains that comprise 60% of Colombia's land, house only 2% of its population. It is a search that not only Colombia but all South America watches with mounting interest. With its population growing at the world's fastest rate, by the year 2000 Latin America will be second only to Asia in numbers, and in desperate need of productive land...
...automobile speed is aerodynamics." His streamliner was as slippery as loving work could make it. The entire car, including wheels, was enclosed by a curved aluminum shield. "If your aerodynamics aren't good," said Thompson, "your car will take off on you and fly. This car is the fastest...
...coaxed their handmade cars to bellowing perfection-long, low, lean monsters with as many as three engines crowded beneath their sleek hoods. In the tenth annual speed trials that ended last week, the world's hottest hot-rods were shooting for 300 m.p.h. on the world's fastest race course...
...urged Britons for years to breed in tight little island size. Wright and his wife recently exported the message to a new birth control clinic in Trinidad, there met the same obstacle that baffles all modern Malthusians-contraceptives are just too much bother for the earth's fastest-breeding peoples. Trinidadians shunned the simplest mechanical devices, which Wright sadly pronounced, in any case, "an upper-mental-class activity, no good at all for Indians, Indonesians or Japanese." He finally tried a really simple, standard tablet that foams in the vagina, should kill all spermatozoa. Same bafflement: women took...