Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Clipper (S-42), which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...
...shares would rise above that figure in the open market. Paramount shares never hit $80 on the New York Stock Exchange but they dropped to a Depression low of 12½?. And the $12,000,000 liability involved in the repurchase agreements came due when Paramount earnings were dropping fastest...
...fastest time ever recorded for the four-mile course which runs past Krum Elbow and Hyde Park, home of President Roosevelt, and under the two bridges, was California's 18:35 4/5 in 1928. The same crew, which beat Columbia in this race by less than a boat length, went on to win an Olympic victory. A similar record although not in time, was hung up by the Golden Bears of 1923. California also won in 1934, following the depression lapse...
Newshawks were assigned to the French Destroyer Foudroyant, bucking and wallowing through the gale. Since no destroyer could keep up speed in such a blow, the Normandie, designed as the world's fastest liner with a speed of 32 knots plus, soon vanished from the Foudroyant's sight, planned to cruise to the Azores, returning for her maiden voyage from Havre to Manhattan...
Milton Green was the outstanding performer, qualifying for the 110 and 200-meter hurdles, with the fastest times of the day in each event, and grabbing three points in the finals of the broad jump...