Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which link the Coastal ranges to the main Sierra Nevada. Between the Tehachapis and the fertile San Fernando Valley, where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash coming, for the ignition was turned off, preventing fire. Broken watches indicated that the crash occurred...
...Edgar Staley Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association of America, declared: "U. S. airlines this year have transported a total of 1,140,000 passengers, of whom 45 lost their lives. . . . Translated into passenger miles, it is possible to fly in a scheduled transport plane at an average speed of 160 m.p.h. for 17 years, one month, three weeks and 21 hours before meeting with a fatal accident, according to official statistics of leading casualty and surety companies. These same figures show that a person has been approximately twice as safe this year on a regular airline than when...
True, Mr. Lewis was apparently taken aback by the speed with which his lieutenants moved in the automobile industry. He was "going after" the big bad boys in the steel industry, he announced some months ago. But now he has agily leaped the automobile bandwagon and seized the reins. And yesterday came a statement whose inspiration is obvious, one bristling with demands all the way from a thirty-hour week to union representation...
...stream was spoken into Dictaphones, which Mr. Brisbane had installed even in his limousine and on planes and trains. Often the "Today" column would be dictated as Mr. Brisbane's car stood on the deck of the ferry taking him from Manhattan to his New Jersey estate. The speed with which he learned to dispose of journalistic chores left him plenty of time to devote to his financial and real estate interests...
...brother. "No one's ahead of me. But behind me I hear the sound of running feet. ... I begin to be afraid. I start to walk faster. . . . When I reach the corner, I find the street still stretches before me, deserted, straight. I keep going at top speed. . . . The sound of running feet behind me comes nearer and nearer, I know a hand will touch me in a moment-then I wake...