Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilbur Shaw made the grade: he got a car to drive on the big brick oval at Indianapolis. It was a rebuilt Miller, 10 to 12 m.p.h. slower than most other cars in the race, and it was something of a jinx. In it, famed Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Indianapolis in 1922, had driven to his death at Syracuse, N.Y., three years before. To Wilbur Shaw the old Miller was just another car, and the cocky, mustachioed little hell-raiser drove it home in fourth place...
...Deacons although their time was over a half-minute slower than the Funsters, had little trouble in taking the consolation race. When Winthrop, in second place for the first half of the race, faltered after its sixth man's oar jumped the slide, Kirkland went on to win by two lengths over Adams. Winthrop finished third, followed by Dudley...
With a design speed of between 150 and 200 m.p.h., the McDonnell XVi is built to carry four passengers (or two casualties and a medic) plus the pilot. As an Army or Air Force jack-of-all-work, it may be used, after further development, to supplement slower, shorter-ranged conventional small helicopters for liaison, rescue and reconnaissance missions. Its enthusiasts see the XV1 as a major advance toward easier civilian air transportation in the future; by 1965 travelers may be able to board convertiplanes at skyscraper platforms within blocks of their homes or offices, speed off for a visit...
...beds, or charpais, are always upside down. Instead of swords and spears, they make axes and sickles, but in recent years their ancient craft products, overwhelmed by a flood of cheap manufactured tools, have been less in demand. The Gadia Lohars have been facing an extinction more complete, if slower, than that offered by the Moguls...
...many hard-pressed companies boosted fares, cut services, or did both. They could hardly have done more to lose passengers. Without exception, fare increases turned passengers away, and started a vicious circle. As more bus riders turned to private cars, city traffic jammed up tighter, buses moved more slowly. Slower speeds forced companies to buy more equipment and hire extra drivers to meet schedules; thus the transit companies them selves helped to make traffic still worse. (A Chicago cable car in the 1890s crossed the Loop only 50 seconds slower than a $20,000, 200-h.p. bus does today...