Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again to crowded Moscow from his bleak hut on the Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...
...Kennelly hoped its bestowal would mark a closer liaison be tween U. S. and French scholarship. Frank Walker Caldwell, 46, Hamilton Standard Propeller Co. engineer; the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences ($250 and certificate) : for his development of controllable pitch and constant speed propellers ("gear shift of the air"). Arthur Cutts Willard, 58, president of the University of Illinois; the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal of the American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers : for work as an engineer, teacher, author and consultant on the ventilating systems of the Holland Tunnel, the U. S. Capitol...
Last week, in Manhattan's Millrose Games, Mangan and Cunningham met again. Lap after lap Cunningham piled on speed, locked in a picture race with Mangan and Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke who followed in close Indian-file pursuit at his back. Coming out of the last turn, 40 yd. from the finish, Mangan gave his kick, sprinted. This time Cunningham did not swerve. Ten yards from the finish Mangan passed him and, timed at 4:11. won his fastest mile by a foot. A foot behind Mangan and a foot ahead of Cunningham, in a race that seemed...
...complete flying headquarters with offices, radios, kitchen, but without armament. In it General Andrews acts as air admiral, flying above his fighters, directing them by radio. With its ceiling of 23,000 ft., the flagship will be out of range of antiaircraft guns, while its 200 m.p.h. speed will permit it to outrun most existing fighters. Its significance lies in accenting a prime military theory: fighting enemy aircraft with aircraft, not with ground guns...
Faced with stiff competition from eleven colleges, the Crimson skiing aces will show their speed and ability at the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival this weekend...