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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Atlantic shipping companies. For the time being the couple will be known as Cunard-White Star, Ltd., may later become British National Services. In the last five years British pride in the merchant marine has been roughly handled. Cunard's Mauretania, commissioned in 1907, is still the fastest British ship but her old records have been broken by Germany's Bremen and Europa, Italy's Conte dl Savoia and Rex. White Star's flagship Majestic is still the biggest ship afloat but soon she will be surpassed by France's Normandie. Balm for British...
...down to 24 seconds. However, the Lion flash is a formidable factor under any conditions. As a schoolboy he was a champion of the New York City school teams, and has had an enviable record since he has joined the ranks of collegiate swimmers. Last year his was the fastest time for the fifty turned in in any dual meet. Although he finished third to Thompson of Navy and Spence of Rutgers in the Intercollegiates, and was listed as fourth on the All-America ratings last year, for a Sophomore, this is a remarkable record...
Facing its most severe test so far this season, the Varsity swimming team will encounter a brilliant Columbia out-fit tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool. In Eugene Jennings, the visitors bring with them one of the fastest men in the East in the two sprint events, while Captain Thomas Wright has turned in remarkable times for the two distance swims. With this competition the Harvard team will undoubtedly be pushed to the limit to keep its record of victories intact...
James Cagney's latest tough boy spiel, now on the University sheet under the cognomen of "Lady Killer," is the fastest moving and most entertaining film released since "Bomb Shell." Like that Harlow epic, it is no esthete's reward, not yet a De Mille nogrom of the conventions; it is purely and simply a play-up to the inimitable James. Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief...
Graham introduced a supercharger with its de luxe eights-first medium-priced model so equipped. Effecting economy at high speeds, the supercharger raises the point of fastest acceleration from around 25 m.p.h. to 45 m.p.h...