Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within 50 years the amount of goods consumed per person in the United States would have risen two and one-half times, that nearly four out of five children of high school age would be in high school, that the number of university students would increase four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world wars and while we were gradually reducing the work week from about...
Since Moscow's May Day air show in 1947, the world has known that Russia has some very fast and possibly very good jet-propelled airplanes. Now, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, just off the presses, has told what it knows and surmises about Russian jets. With five drawings ("impressions") and one photograph,, Jane's gives some interesting descriptions, some of them fragmentary, of Red single-jet fighters, twin-jet attack bombers and fighters, four-jet bombers...
Director Levy is now conducting a frantic search for a "retired soft-shoe artist out to make a fast buck" to teach Rettenberg a passable routine, He says that urchin street-dancers, "if they have a flair," might be considered as a last resort...
Hotel rooms are still available this coming weekend for those men who are importing dates for the three days of football and carousing, but hotel officials in Cambridge and downtown Boston said last night that they are going fast...
...hotels uniformly turned down requests for rooms for the entire weekend, Boston establishments allowed that some were available, but expected that the few remaining rooms would be gone by nightfall. The Statler's reservation desk told the CRIMSON. "If you are going to make reservations, you'd better move fast...