Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years," said he, "American money may be just as useful to us as ours was to them in the half-century following the Civil War. In fact, I am not sure whether the world needs anything for the rectification of its financial and economic position so much as a rapid and widespread investment of American capital abroad...
Along a like line of thought was the student-enacted pageant at the auditorium of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. Unlike most pageants, this one was rapid moving, took only one hour. The first part, showed "The Beginnings." First scene: a perfectly blank, dark stage, allowing the audience to picture whatever they wished...
...acquiring stock in Albany Gas Light Co. A genius for consolidation, in comparatively short time he acquired control of Manhattan utility and traction companies. In 1887 he reorganized Manhattan's elevated railway and subway systems and held until his death a majority of the stock of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., now Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Co. He died in 1913 of indigestion, in London, while traveling with Restaurateur Louis Sherry. He left an estate estimated...
...reluctance of the Air Corps to re-equip with monoplanes has been due to incomplete research into wing construction. At extreme speeds, a monoplane wing is subject to "flutter," or rhythmic oscillation, which leads to rapid destruction of the member involved. The new Boeing model has satisfactorily overcome this difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack...
...pace and on the plane thus set by Critic Fadiman, USA proceeded to present in rapid, sure-fire fashion, a mixture of the nation's cultural foibles and virtues. Readers had no difficulty guessing which material was placed by the editors in which category...