Word: sped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land bases. Four Germans were reported shot down...
When the last Armistice was flashed, a minesweeping force sped into the Dardanelles and in 24 hours removed 600 British and enemy mines, to let the fleet move in to Istanbul. At home, Britain's mine-sweeping fleet contained 17,000 ships, with Great Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept...
Informed that a spy was taking pictures of the plant, Watertown, Mass, police sped to the U. S. Army's Watertown Arsenal. There beside the railroad tracks, Graflex in hand, was Lucius Beebe, who elaborately explained that he was waiting for Boston & Albany's 601 to come by so that he could take its picture for his forthcoming book on American railroading...
...production rate of 40 to 60% of nominal capacity, output can easily be sped up or slowed down. But to speed up much beyond 60% of capacity, time and money must be spent sweeping spider webs out of high-cost idle factories, oil and repairs have to be lavished on obsolete machinery. At such times as the present, orders can be delivered no faster than the economic assembly line is able to move through U. S. industry's many tight spots and bottlenecks...
...cloudy afternoon Dutchmen heard the drumming of war engines as a big flight of bombers sped east across The Netherlands, safe from anti-aircraft fire above a thick overcast. From their course, air-wise Dutchmen (who protested this violation of their neutrality) concluded they were headed for three Nazi naval bases (Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Brunsbüttel), clustered in a 50-mile circle around the North Sea mouth of the Kiel Canal. They were right...