Word: sped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealing with churchmen Realmleader Hitler has always proceeded on the theory that they can be hoodwinked, bluffed. Last week's move was to proclaim with loud fanfare that Dr. Jaeger had "resigned." Cables sped the news; world headlines blared it. A general impression was created with the Nazifiers and nationalizers had been vanquished at last by Germany's true Protestants...
...virtually the whole Pacific Coast began to quake. In San Francisco buildings toppled, fires broke out, water pipes parted and the fire chief was killed in his bed. When news of this great disaster reached the late great Edward Henry Harriman in his Manhattan office, he boarded a train, sped West over his own Union Pacific R. R. to place at the disposal of San Francisco's earthquake victims the entire resources of his railroad empire. That done, his next purpose was to get back to New York in a hurry. He ordered out Union Pacific's fastest...
...Angeles slid M-10001, its Diesel-electric power-plant driving it along at 70, 80, 90 m.p.h. Thanks to airconditioning, its passengers felt nothing of Imperial Valley's heat. Up steep grades of the Rockies M10001 sped at over 50 m.p.h., shot through the snow-capped passes of the Continental Divide, glided swiftly across the prairies. Between Dix and Potter, Neb. it covered two miles in one minute flat. Never before had a passenger train hit 120 m.p.h.* After a run of 38 hr. 49 min. from Los Angeles M10001 glided smoothly into Chicago's La Salle Street...
Second Day. Still far in the lead were Britons Scott & Black in their De Havilland Comet Grosvenor House. Behind them as they sped over the Bay of Bengal for Singapore were Parmentier & Moll. At Allahabad these two had lost valuable minutes when they carelessly took off without one of their passengers, had to return to pick him up. Two other Hollanders, Asjes & Geysendorfer, smashed their undercarriage landing at Allahabad. Their mishap put Turner & Pangborn in fourth place, which soon became third when they passed the Mollisons at Karachi. The Mollisons left there two minutes later, got lost, developed motor trouble...
Scott & Black, keeping up their sensational pace, flashed into Charleville, refueled, sped toward the finish where waiting thousands cheered their progress, reported over loudspeakers. With one motor dead, with only two hours sleep since leaving England, the Britons triumphantly set their scarlet torpedo down in Melbourne at 3:34 p. m. In 71 hr. 1 min. 3 sec.-just under three days-they had flown halfway around the world...