Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putters & Roars. The smaller classes started first. Italian Fiats ("Little Mice"), French Panhards and Renaults whizzed off the elevated starting platform at 30-sec. intervals and sped away. The din shifted from putters to roars as the bigger cars streaked off in their turn. One entrant who made a rather slow start was Moviemaker...
...This is to certify that the Counts and Brewerytown have decided to sign a peace treaty . . . this day of Feb. 8, year of 1953," it read. "So be it known that the offended and defended called it off." It listed the table of organization of the new, bigger gang: "Sec. of War, Chief of War Intel., Chief of Armament, Chief of Territory, Spokesman and Comm. of Tactical Opr." It was signed with such gang names as Mousie, Muscles, Rickets, Hypo, Dippy, Slick, Shamus, Big Nick, and Luke the Spook...
...Buffalo, the mile-relay team of Manhattan's Grand Street Boys Club (Olympic Champions Herb McKenley Andy Stanfield, George Rhoden and Mal Whitfield) breezed through their event in 3 min. 14.4 sec., an unofficial indoor record...
...stay that way. Many a prophet who had predicted that business would slip after midyear changed his mind, now saw a good second half. A touch of spring in the air gave retail sales a push to an estimated 3% to 7% higher than a year ago. The SEC estimated that, on the basis of a new survey, business expansion in 1953 would exceed the record $26.5 billion spent last year. And the Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumers' spending plans indicated that U.S. customers this year plan to outspend 1952 on autos, electrical appliances...
...March 2 News in Pictures spread: You say the lady in the pancake race in Olney, England ran 415 yards in "1 min. 7.2 sec." If she had gone 75 feet farther [at the same speed], she would have run the quarter mile in approximately 71½- seconds. Having in view her habiliments, sex, the skillet and other handicaps, this seems to me incredible...