Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since what goes up may have to come down, the Department of Commerce last week announced that, beginning July 1, it would test and certificate parachutes as well as planes. With new types of parachutes coming on the market in rapid succession, parachute accidents have been increasing. To obtain certificates of approval, manufacturers will not have to submit each & every 'chute to inspection, but one of each type offered for sale. Minimum test requirements...
...countries of Continental Europe have nearly trebled their apportionment when the figures for 1921-22 are compared with those of 1929-30. The growth of commerce between the German educational institutions and those of America has been amazingly rapid and the total number of visiting students from Germany is eight-fold what it was at the beginning of the third decade...
SUBWAY EXPRESS?A perilous journey on Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit lines (TIME...
...rapid typist and an efficient filing clerk up to last week was Miss Anne Tyrrell, socialite daughter of the British Ambassador at Paris, brought up to be useful to her father, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon. Last week she became famed as the first British bride to be married in Notre Dame de Paris in 372 years, the first, according to Cathedral records, since the wedding of Mary Queen of Scots...
...Arlington, the University ritle team will shoot off a match with the strong Trinity College sextet Six men will compete for Harvard, and will shoot five shots each from four positions, including shots made prone, sitting, kneeling, and off hand. The men will also be allowed two rounds of rapid fire from sitting and prone positions...