Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spick & span readiness for her maiden voyage from Manhattan this week was the 5. S. Manhattan, biggest (705 ft., 24.000 tons), fastest (22.7 knots) liner ever built in the U. S.* Fortnight ago on its two trial cruises, the Manhattan met every test successfully, was unofficially scored "100% plus." Soot from the two squat, rakish funnels had smudged many a celebrity on the trial run but it was a simple matter for 100 workmen to raise the short stacks 15 feet...
...Shipbuilders who are putting together for the French Line what they claim will be the largest, fastest liner in the world announced last week, "She will be launched in October 1932 and probably christened the Paul Doumer...
Spurred by the success of Germans with the world's fastest first-class ships (TIME, Jan. 26. 1931), the French Line put on the Atlantic last week its new Champlain, fastest cabin & tourist-class liner and larger than the French Line's first-class liner France...
...pleased in the last rounds. Instead, Schmeling came out a shade more cautiously in the twelfth and Sharkey's savage, feline left paw began to flick his face savagely again. fought. The last Schmeling four was rounds fresher in were the last round, the fastest of a sharp but not particularly dramatic match. When the bell ended it. he ran lightly to his corner. Sharkey followed him. When Schmeling sat down on his stool, Sharkey placed one foot on the lowest rung and leaned down to talk. What he talked about was not revealed but his gesture...
From Rome last week issued a report that a Lieut. Neri of the Italian Air Force had streaked around Lake Garda in a seaplane at 463.26 m. p. h. Fastest speed heretofore recorded was 408.8 m. p. h. by Lieut. George H. Stainforth of Britain's Royal Air Force as an aftermath to last year's Schneider Trophy Race. Lieut. Neri's trial was unofficial...