Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Lifting censorship revealed England harder-hit than most had realized. Reports came, true or false, that Nazi Germany's war-making capacity was actually increasing, and increasing faster than that of Great Britain and the U. S. put together. Japan teetered at the edge of a war plunge into the rich islands of the Western Pacific. England was running out of merchant ships, its very life line to the food, supplies, war materials of the U. S.; England still needed destroyers...
...Corps cadets used to get a year's schooling at Randolph and nearby Kelly Field. Randolph gave them their primary training in simple, low-horsepowered planes, and an intermediate ("basic") course in faster, higher-powered (400-450 h.p.) ships. They finished at Kelly on still bigger & faster ships, were then ready for tactical duties, second lieutenants' commissions. Early this year, to meet the expanding Air Corps's demand for more pilots, the courses at Randolph and Kelly were telescoped to ten weeks each. Primary training was farmed out to 18 private schools...
...smcwth-floor cable racing, with no rails to cause friction, cars run even faster. Record: 77 m.p.h...
...Cigaret paper is hard to make. It must be thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...
...defense boom was catching up with the rails, upping their nine-month revenues 9% (to $3,125,855,000) over the same period of 1939. It was barely suggested by the companion fact that when rail net rises above the break-even (interest-covering) point, leverage raises it much faster than the gross. The 9% increase in gross served as a lever on which 137 of the roads hoisted their combined...