Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weeds. Their job had not been easy. In their report, they assailed both labor and management for playing fast & loose with statistics. In contrast to the uncritical respect which the Administration had shown in the past for labor's philosophy, Daugherty, Rosenman and Cole time & again chided labor economists for the lack of reliability in their "facts;" they also chided steelmakers for the unreliability of theirs. The truth, the board had decided unanimously in the end, lay somewhere in between...
...when the telephone rang in the midst of the uproar, he calmly picked up the receiver. The man on the other end of the wire, a fast thinking Camden newspaperman named Philip Buxton, said: "I'm a friend . . . how many have you killed...
...from picking up bedroom gossip in Lisbon to sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...
...problems of modern air training is finding a fast-enough target for fighter pilots and antiaircraft gunners to practice on. Towed targets are much too slow, and they don't maneuver realistically. The ordinary "drones" (small remotely controlled airplanes) are not fast enough either...
...gunners would soon have a target worthy of their fire: the Martin KDM-1, a pilotless plane powered with a ramjet engine, designed to fly close to the speed of sound. The little drone is carried into the air under the wing of a larger airplane and flown fast enough to start its ramjet. Then it is released and flies thenceforth under remote control, while the Navy gunners try to shoot it down. When its fuel is gone, the drone zooms high in the air. A parachute opens and it floats down to the sea, where it can be recovered...