Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the Curtis-Martin ownership the Inquirer started downhill to failure. Combining it with the famed old Public Ledger failed to slow its descent. In 1934 the Inquirer bounced back on the Paternõtres when the Curtis-Martin interests could no longer pay off their recurrent notes. Still carrying the old Ledger nameplate,* the Inquirer was administered for its absentee owners by Publisher Charles A. Tyler. Morning competition in Philadelphia was supplied by rambunctious New Dealer J. (for Julius) David Stern and his bustling Record (circulation: 221,927). When the Paternõtres sold...
...roads have always lagged behind automobiles in technological improvement, are now almost universally too slow for the automobile, too dangerous for the driver. Of the 3,000,000 miles of U. S. rural road, backbone is the state system of 324,000 miles of primary highways, of which only one-half is hard surface, between towns. Usually considered the world's finest network, it is really, according to Expert McClintock, an inadequate, unscientific hodgepodge. Sole idea behind most of the system was to have bigger, harder roads. These inevitably caused more accidents. Less than 1% provide what experts...
...sealed conduit past all conflicting eddies." It has four elements: 1) A dividing strip down the road's centre ; 2) over and underpasses with cloverleaf detours at every intersection; 3) denial to abutting property of direct access to the highway; 4) acceleration and deceleration lanes for fast and slow traffic. All four forms of friction are largely cured by these four elements. But few roads exemplify them all. One example is the Worcester (Mass.) Turnpike. It used an abandoned trolley right-of-way. Even so, the elaborate structure cost $239,000 per mile. This tremendous expense, dwarfing ordinary figures...
...master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed to Chen...
...afraid a fearface came slow-bobbing in a crevice and a shape white linen-swathed...