Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger and faster. It seemed to have a wingspread of about 25 feet and to be about 40 feet long, and seasoned R.A.F. observers on the Ward estimated its speed at no less than 600 miles an hour. Spitfires trying for a shot at it fell behind like bulldogs chasing a whippet. More of these might follow...
...were still purposely blurred. The B-29 has a maximum speed at its favorite altitude (high) of "well over 300 m.p.h.," its ceiling is "well over 30,000 feet." Boeing did not give its maximum range or bomb load, said simply that it carries a heavier load farther and faster than any other heavy bomber. Total fire power is still under wraps, but it is known that the B-29 is armed with .50-caliber machine guns, aimed and fired by remote control, and that it packs a 20-mm. cannon...
...coming off the production line is the company's XR-4. By fall this will be replaced by a later, heavier-load-carrying model, the XR5 Powered by a 450-h.p. Pratt & Whitney motor, the XR5 carries a pilot and passenger in tandem, flies faster than 110 miles an hour, has a range of some 400 miles...
Nonetheless, though authorities predicted in January that all needs for penicillin could be met by this month, production is still far behind demand. Reason: new uses for penicillin are being discovered faster than new methods of production...
...time Boulder Dam came along (1931), Frank had a reputation: he was the man who could read blueprints at a glance (or ignore them when necessary), the man who could build dams faster than anyone else. When Henry J. Kaiser's Six Companies got the Boulder Dam bid, Frank was the natural choice to boss...