Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DURING the first years of the great Bull Market rise, many U.S. investors "played the averages." They bought blue-chip stocks used to compute stock averages, notably those in the Dow-Jones average, and made money because it was a blue-chip market in which the leaders rose fastest. But in 1956, playing the averages did not pay off; the blue chips backed and filled all year long. Last week, in the first days of 1957, almost every Wall Street commentator was warning investors to beware the averages this year; playing them would not pay. Blue-chip prices...
...Joplin, Mo. or Dallas, have the cases broken down into "lugs" (packages) of three fifths or six pints each for easier handling, load the lugs into stock cars with heavy-duty rear springs (so the cops cannot detect any telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference to their longtime favorite, Mercurys), or fit used cars with Cadillac engines. Some still prefer the old technique of concealing a hundred or more cases under the hay of a cattle truck...
...heartening U.S. achievements, the heartbreaking failure of Australia's John Landy spoiled the day. Testing his sore legs for the first time in weeks against topflight competition, the world's fastest miler finished eleventh in a two-mile run. "This could be the end," said the dejected champ. "Every step was an effort. There's no time...
Such scenes help explain why the Government's huge stores of agricultural surpluses have recently been dropping at a surprising rate. While the school-lunch program got more than $100 million last fiscal year, the fastest-growing part of the domestic disposal program is the handout program to welfare and needy families: last fiscal year $90 million worth of food was given to 3,100,000 people in 36 states. More and more states are hopping on the bandwagon; only last month New York signed up to receive its share of the free groceries...
Jordan Olivar uses the T-formation with split-T variations. He is very fortunate in possessing a very deceptive quarterback in Loucks and a trio of excellent backs in Dennis McGill, Al Ward, and Steve Ackerman-all seniors, and all great runners. McGill is the fastest of the three, and with Bo Roberson of Cornell, one of the shiftiest in the league. McGill is very dangerous on end sweeps, and is almost certain to cause trouble for relatively slow Harvard defenders...