Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tested (TIME, Aug. 19). Meantime, to continue nervy Lieut. Williams in his country's best uses, the Navy Department last week ordered him to sea with the aircraft carrier Lexington, his first "active" duty in seven years. Promptly, Speedster Williams countered. As the Army's fastest flyer, Lieut. James Doolittle, had done a month prior, Williams resigned from his country's service, "that I shall be free to devote my full time and energy, without constraint," to outflying the world...
...Aviators. The league was founded in 1926 by Clifford Harmon, to recognize and reward the persons who do each year's outstanding air work. Costes' 1929 work: non-stop flight from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, 4.910 mi. (farthest); Hanoi, Indo-China, to Paris, 4 days, 18 hrs. (fastest); closed circuit, 4.987 mi., around Marseilles (longest); with one ton cargo 2,048 mi. (farthest) for 18 hrs. i min. 20 sec. (longest). The 1927 award went to Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the 1928 to Arturo Ferrarin...
...comparative nobodies, the most prominent being Sir Alfred Butt, theatrical producer, and Sir Newton J. Moore, who twice upon a time was Premier of the province of Western Australia. Among the thousands who clipped and signed coupons enrolling them as "Empire Crusaders" was Sir Henry Segrave. world's fastest motorist. First ty coon to join the founders of the party was Sir Herbert Austin, the "Ford of Britain,'' who sees in the proposed high tariff wall his best defence against competition from the original Henry Ford...
...fateful ship is the 46,500-ton Europa, sister to the world's fastest liner, the North German Lloyd's Bremen. Last March, when the Europa was nearly ready to be put in commission, fire mysteriously broke out in four different places amidships, the ship burned to "the waterline for a $6,000,000 loss. Rueful British insurance men who had taken a large part of the Europa's underwriting, paid $4,500,000. In July Phoenix Europa arose from her ashes, was launched again. When the ship was halfway down the ways another mysterious explosion blew...
Last year J. P. Chase '28, second baseman on the nine two years ago, received both awards. In 1928, H. W. Burns '28, probably the fastest man ever to cavort on Soldiers Field turf in a baseball uniform and captain of the 1928 nine, was the recipient...