Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fixed guidepost standards, based on an average level of productivity increase are poorly coordinated with our economy's cyclical fluctuations. Productivity rises fastest in the early periods of an upswing when inflationary pressure is relatively slight. Labor costs and wage pressures start increasing more rapidly than productivity when the country approaches full employment...
...nine-second mark Princeton attackman Bob Mueller took a pass right off the faceoff from his left wing end whipped the ball past goalie Ron Wilson for what probably was the most demoralizing if not the fastest goal scored on Harvard for a long time...
Saturday, in cold, rainy weather, Walt Hewlett ran sixth in the two-mile run, but recorded his fastest time in almost a year, 9:02.1. Ivy League nonpareil Chris Pardee had a bad day and could only clear 6' 6" in the high jump, finishing third to his nemisis, fellow seven-footer Frank Costello from Maryland...
...from the Fringes. Farmland prices are jumping fastest on the fringes of cities, partly because speculators figure that population growth, low tax assessments on vacant land, and the growing net of federal highways will give them juicy profits. Also, inflation worries and stock-market jitters persuade some investors that land is a safer outlet. Heavy buying has lifted the price of farms near Minneapolis by 20% in the past year; land five miles from the center of Youngstown, Ohio, has quadrupled from $500 to $2,000 an acre in eight years. The city of Wichita recently paid $600 for cornfields...
...Germany, Eric Warburg, 66, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has helped make his family's Hamburg investment bank one of the fastest-growing financial houses on the Continent. His cousin Siegmund Warburg, 63, has become the most rapidly expanding merchant banker of London's City. Increasingly, the two men are uniting. Siegmund holds an interest in Eric's Hamburg bank, and Eric has a stake in Siegmund's recently started Frankfurt branch...