Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week plays the U. S. for the right to meet Great Britain, Davis Cup defender, in the challenge round. C. Elroy Robinson, of San Francisco's Olympic Club: the half-mile run at the World Labor Athletic Carnival on Randalls Island, N. Y.; in 1 min. 49.6 sec., breaking Ben Eastman's accepted world's record by .2 sec...
...chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator cannot be greater than 14 ft. per sec. without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which contacts made at every floor with the braking mechanism become effective only when a button has been pushed...
...history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations last week made public a complete lesson in brevity. Declaring that prospectuses for security issues were too long and gummed up with unnecessary legal verbiage, Mr. Neff cited a utility company's prospectus for an issue of first-mortgage bonds. Of most...
...lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman of England piloting a Mercedes. Then for ten laps Seaman tore like the wind scarcely 15 sec. behind Rosemeyer. Before the finish he stopped for a fuel lap, let Rosemeyer streak home for the $20,000 first prize. The winner averaged 82½ m.p.h., snail slow compared to the 229 m.p.h. he recently clocked on a ten-mile European stretch, but fast compared to Nuvolari...
...sharp-eyed Mr. Lindley has been a member of the Stock Exchange since 1902, a governor since 1916. In the 77th Division he served as an infantry captain in the War. Exchange members first chose him to be their disciplinarian in 1930, learned to like his strictness better than SEC spankings. When the nominating committee failed to rename him for governor last year he ran independently, easily...