Word: fasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Belgian civil servants fled in terror; vital provinces tried to secede; and the land, neither administered nor policed, reverted to darkness. Howling all the while about white imperialism, Patrice Lumumba himself did not hesitate to sell the exploitation rights to the Congo's vast resources to a fast-talking American promoter...
With jets, bosses move about more because they can fly out and back fast enough to prevent piled-up paperwork. "We now have a tendency to make a trip for a two-day meeting that we would have put off before," says Lear Siegler Vice President John J. Burke. At Bell & Howell, six ranking officers will use the ordinarily dead week after Christmas for a jet swing to pep meetings in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, returning to Chicago in time for New Year's with their families. Many travelers never glimpse the city in which they have...
...executive hunting for a home tends to keep in mind how many min utes he will have to allow before flight time. And while some large corporations are closing out now unnecessary branch offices because of the jet's ability to get their men to the territory fast, others are expanding. When small Technical Operations Inc. of Burlington, Mass., acquired a $6,000,000 company in San Carlos, Calif., jet speed was a definite consideration in the deal. "If we couldn't get there readily," says Dr. Marvin G. Schorr, Techops' president, "we wouldn't have...
...ruddy, supercharged salesman who, with the help of his brother Sir Reginald Rootes ("I get the ideas and Reggie tells me why they can't be carried out"), turned his father's auto-sales firm into Britain's largest distributor by unloading cars as fast as they could be delivered, then, deciding that the manufacturers were "too sluggish," bought up the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam and Humber automaking firms and led the raid on the U.S. economy-car market in the early 1950s, making the family-owned Rootes Group such a profitable venture that Chrysler last year paid...
...prime reasons for the freshmen's impressive times against Army is the size of West Point's indoor track, twice as long as Briggs Cage's 150-yard oval. Yet size cannot discount the remarkably fast times recorded in the sprints and hurdles by the freshmen...