Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided to send the light cruiser Richmond, with Admiral Magruder, to Vera Cruz from Panama. Two days later the Omaha and six destroyers were ordered to follow. The Omaha and Richmond are two of the most modern and fastest units of the light cruiser fleet, commissioned within a year...
...yard dash, against the famous Loren Murchison, the fastest man in the country on an indoor track, W. R. Chase '26 and A. H. Miller '27 are the strongest University entries. It is possible that a recent automobile injury will slacken Murchison's speed, in which case either Bernie Wefers, Jr., or Charles Carroll, two New York A. C. representatives, may pass...
...ever attained by an electric locomotive, and could just as well have been 125 miles an hour, said officials, if the track had been longer. Steam locomotives have several times attained speeds of from 105 to 120 miles an hour over distances of less than eight miles. But the fastest time made regularly on American steam roads is 75 to 80 miles, on the Philadelphia & Reading between Philadelphia and Atlantic City...
...Leviathan of the U. S. now claims the record for the fastest passage from Cherbourg to New York. From Cherbourg breakwater to Ambrose Channel Lightship, 3,078 miles, she traveled in 5 days, 7 hours, 20 minutes. She thereby lowered the Mauretania's record, established in October of last year, by just 13 minutes...
...Mauretania still holds the world's record for the fastest westward passage across the Atlantic This record, established between Queenstown and New York (about 2,800 miles) in September, 1910, is only 4 days, 10 hours, 41 minutes...