Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity cross country runners, with the one notable exception of Schlaeppi, started from scratch. The winner among this group was French Anderson, whose corrected time of 18:44 was second fastest...
...fastest-growing segment of the West German auto industry (world's No. 2, after the U.S.) is the midget-car business. Last week crowds at the opening of the 38th International Automobile Fair in Frankfurt hurried past the halls filled with big, sleek U.S. models, slowed down only slightly in the rooms where a new Porsche hardtop convertible, a new face-lifted Mercedes, Opels, Volkswagens and other German-made regular cars were on display. They finally came to a halt and milled around in the pavilion where midget-auto makers, some of them motorcycle manufacturers, were showing a half...
...racy Messerschmitt Tiger, only 50 in. high with two seats arranged tandem fashion under a lift-up plastic dome. Fastest of all the midgets, the Tiger has been clocked at 87 m.p.h...
...Franchise de Petroles, hope will open up a huge new oilfield off the shores of Arabia's Abu Dhabi sheikdom. But while the barge's owners are foreign, the barge itself is thoroughly American, a product of the De Long Corp., one of the nation's fastest-growing and most inventive engineering and construction firms...
...Street woke up to the wonders-and possibilities-of magnetic tape. The stock of ORRadio Industries Inc. jumped live points in a day to 23. Reason: ORRadio, one of the four major makers of magnetic tape (others: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., Audio Devices Inc., Reeves Soundcraft Corp.), is the fastest growing company in the new field. Its sales, which rose 62% to $1,600,000 last year, are expected to hit $2,500,000 this year and quadruple next year. This week in Opelika, Ala., ORRadio rushed to completion part of a new plant to start commercial production of tapes...