Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...north, then south again, finally found a fair wind, nipped across the finish line off Diamond Head last week with a winning corrected time of 11 days 41 min. 41 sec., logging 2,407 miles over the 2,225-mile course. "We went looking for the fastest winds and quickest course to Honolulu," noted Nimble Navigator Ullman. ¶ In the women's finals of the U.S. Clay Court championships in Chicago last week, Wimbledon Champ Althea Gibson, 29, aiming squarely at next month's U.S. singles championships, overpowered California's Darlene Hard, her Wimbledon opponent...
...second singles, Steve Gottlieb, after winning the first set handily, ran into trouble in the second, eventually winning, 6-1, 8-6. Larry Sears had a tough match with Bob Robbins at third singles, but won in two sets, 6-4, 7-5. The quickest win of the day was engineered by Ben Heckscher at fourth singles, where he handily defeated Howie Friedel...
...with the Tax. Quickest to harness the winds to political advantage were the Democrats: with economy in the air, the idea of tax cuts seemed appealing beyond endurance. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, after matching barometers with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, announced that prospects looked good for a tax cut along about Jan. 1. For only $1 billion or so, Rayburn's Democrats thought, they could either increase individual exemptions by $100 or offer a personal tax credit...
...quickest remedy would be for Congress to increase the VA interest rate to 5%, thus making it more competitive on the open market. The American Legion backs the increase, but many veterans and veterans' groups such as the Amvets, the Disabled American Veterans, bitterly oppose the move because it would mean higher mortgage costs. With an ear to such complaining veterans back home, Congress has blocked all moves to approve the increase...
...affected by what he does, few under stand how he does it. To most credit users the operations of the Fed are as incomprehensible as the Eleusinian mysteries. Basically, the Fed operates on three main fronts: ¶ One of the quickest and easiest ways of tightening credit is to hike the discount rate, the interest that the Federal Reserve charges member banks for short-term loans. This tends to raise commercial interest rates and discourage marginal borrowing. In the past 17 months the FRB has raised the discount rate six times, boosted it to the highest level (3%) since...