Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarming man-for-man defense stifled the Crimson efforts completely until 2:32 had elapsed in the first period, when Bob Repetto finally hit on a one-hand set shot from outside. Meanwhile, the Eagles' race-horse fast breaks gave them several two-on-one and three-on-two situations, most of which were cashed...
...revolver to her jailed boy friend and partner in crime, comes from a 75? inhaler intended only for clearing stuffy noses. But if its active chemical ingredient, amphetamine, is dissolved and injected into a vein, it packs a wallop. Last week the abuse of amphetamine was growing so fast that it had the Kansas City police, Missouri legislators, federal officials, even the U.S. Congress seriously concerned...
This use of TV to reach the public and make news is spreading to other cities. New York City Controller Lawrence Gerosa last fall used a Sunday interview on WRCA's Searchlight to score the city's school-building program as being "too fast and too fancy," stirred an open row in the papers. As reporters clamored for rebuttal to Gerosa's charges, school board officials bided their time until they in turn could state their case...
...White company was on its last legs in 1935 when the stockholders brought Black in to save it. Black's first accomplishment was to bring out, in 1937, the first light, fast truck motor that gave the truck industry the kind of power needed for modern, swift intercity traffic. White again turned the industry on its hubcap by tucking the truck motor under the cab seat. This cut 1 ft. off the cab length, substantially increasing the loading space. To answer the industry's need for an easily serviced engine, White made cabs that would tilt forward, exposing...
...fast-rising Cook Electric, the Nepal contract is the kind of offbeat challenge on which it thrives. Building its growth on tough jobs that discourage competitors, Cook has pushed its sales from $350,000 in 1939 to $30.1 million in fiscal 1958. Along with sales, it has also built one of the top scientific organizations in the U.S. Says Cook's energetic President Walter C. Hasselhorn: "I don't get excited over assets. I get excited over men, abilities and talent...