Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parish council meetings, funerals and hot pot suppers for the Wallasey (Cheshire) Chronicle. By 1929 he was assistant editor of the Sunday Express. In that job he distinguished himself the night the British dirigible R-101 crashed in France in 1930. He leaped from his bed at 2 a.m., sped to his office in pajamas, remade his paper, scooped all England...
...Navy plane flew into Detroit's City Airport from Washington one noon last week. Out hopped a Navy officer, a bulging brief case under his arm. He stepped into a car, sped to the Navy's $60,000,000 arsenal, operated by the Hudson Motor Car Co. There he pulled sheaves of mimeographed notices from his brief case, ordered them distributed to arsenal officials and workers. The notice: "The Navy Department has determined that it is to the best interests of the Government to change the operating management of the Naval Ordnance Plant...
...placid Puget Sound, the U.S.S. Casablanca, first of the 50 new small Kaiser aircraft carriers, triumphantly sped through its trial runs, just 236 days after the keel was laid...
...days after 18-year-old Oona O'Neill had described her eight-month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to coastal Carpinteria, nervously found the finger for her first and his fourth wedding ring,* hid himself and his bride somewhere in Montecito...
There are now three editions of TIME AIR EXPRESS, with another soon due to appear. Most of these copies are still printed in this country on the world's fastest offset presses, then sped to Latin America by plane. But last year we began printing an edition for Mexico and Central America in Mexico City; last month we began printing in Bogotá for the north coast of South America-and very soon we hope to launch a third Latin American edition in Buenos Aires...