Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five short weeks, country corn sent CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies to the top of Old Smoky in Nielsen ratings. Its climb was one of the swiftest in the history of television. Scheduled opposite the supposedly invincible Perry Como, it shot him daid...
Even for the sophisticated rocket watchers of Cape Canaveral to whom the swiftest jet plane seems a little oldfashioned, the contrails of the B-52 bomber that soared high overhead last week held a special significance. Telescopes and electronic eyes on the Atlantic Missile Range traced every mile of the big ship's progress. The reason for the intense interest was obvious. Under the bomber's right wing hung a slim Skybolt missile, the newest and most promising weapon of the U.S. Air Force...
...dance of the drifting blips was impressive proof that the problem of long-range aircraft navigation has yet to be licked. The most spectacular new guidance systems still strain to keep up with the swiftest new planes...
Premature Palsy. What Northrop was suffering from was a premature case of the palsy soon to afflict all airframe companies in the age of aerospace. Fast disappearing were the World War II days of mass production of aircraft with relatively little emphasis on quality control. In the swiftest industrial sequence in history, the U.S. was shifting from piston-engine planes to jets, from jets to missiles, and on beyond to the incredibly precise devices required for space exploration. Between 1953 and 1961, Pentagon purchases of manned aircraft plummeted from 9,000 to 1,500 per year, while Government spending...
...fingers to the wind, after first running their eyes up and down the latest charts, Government economists last week set the date when they expect the recovering economy to regain its former peak: the end of August. If their calculations are right, the recovery would be one of the swiftest in recent U.S. history, following a recession that already ranks (in percentage of decline) as the mildest. Measured by the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production, recoveries to pre-recession highs since 1919 have taken between five months and 17 months (see chart). If the present recession reached...