Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other lawyers and bankers in central Kansas, now figuring the same way, have flocked to real-estate offices in search of "bankable" land, pushed the prices fast enough to give Brown a $10-an-acre profit if he were to sell out today...
Last month, with all competent advisers (including U.S.) telling him he was "going too fast with too little," Menderes introduced a budget one-fourth larger than last year's inflationary extravaganza. Items: a new 40% levy on all imports, a 70% sales tax on some 260 kinds of so-called luxury products. Overnight, prices shot up a further 30% to 40%, and even the hardiest Democrats began muttering in the bazaars...
...when the attack was over, it was the attackers who were dead; Fulgencio Batista, 56, was alive, elated and still President. Normality came back fast. In jammed planes U.S. tourists, held...
...city hall makes a striking addition to Edmonton's fast-climbing skyline. Riding a surge of prosperity that began when U.S. servicemen poured north in World War II to man the land route to Alaska and the air route to the Soviet Union, the city tapped a far richer bonanza in the oil boom that blew in ten years ago and gets bigger every year...
...building for Imperial Oil Ltd., and four other office buildings of six to eleven stories. A record-shattering housing boom thrust new residential suburbs out into the prairies faster than streets and sidewalks could be built to serve them. Power lines, sewers, bus routes are growing, but never quite fast enough to keep up with the demand. It takes a year to get a new telephone. But, grins Mayor Hawrelak, this is a major improvement-it used to take three years...