Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butler was picked up at the 1957 Harrisburg, Pa., yearling sales for a paltry $6,000. Since then, he has won 26 out of 39 races, captured $355,844 in purses, brought $600,000 from his sale to a syndicate. Last year he became the world's fastest pacer by stepping off a 1:54.6 mile at Lexington, Ky., breaking the 1:55 record set in 1938 by his granddad, Billy Direct...
Chevrolet, as in 18 of the past 20 years, continues to be the fastest seller. Its registered sales in the first four months were off by more than 100,000 from 1960, but its share of the market held fairly steady at 21%. Chevy lost part of its sales to its own brother, Corvair, which scored with the Monza-a hot-selling, bucket-seat job that increased Corvair's market slice from 3.3% to 5.6%, second highest among individual compact models...
Stack will probably try to double in the 330 and 440, and the quarter-mile race between the gritty Yale captain and Metcalfe should be a hell-raiser. Bobby Mack of Yale, the fastest two-miler in astern history at 8:53.6, should win his event, but Tim Briault of Cambridge and John Boulter of Oxford will threaten...
...yielded so well that last year Mongolia was able to export grain. The trans-Mongolian railroad's locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide-covered tents for apartments in modern Ulan Bator (pop. 180,000) and four other 10,000-plus cities. Some 100,000 Mongolian children and adults are in school. Though its 21 million head...
These three assorted craft patrolling the waters of Lake Texoma last week belonged to the Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...