Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bullets for Speed. Commissar Ordzhonikidze saw to it that Comrade Stakhanov received a motor car and other luxuries unheard of for a Russian miner. After diligent search in other Soviet mines and factories, fresh Heroes of Labor were produced whose feats of "Stakhanovism" as played up by the Soviet Press became more & more stupendous...
...this was fine news for Russia in 1935, except that one of Communism's great talking points has always been against Capitalism's technique of "the speed-up." As usually described by Communists, the Capitalist bosses incite crack workers to exceed normal production, get the whole shop working faster to keep up, exhaust and exploit their workers. Throughout Russia proletarians sensed that the disguised State Capitalism of Dictator Stalin, which has already forced piecework upon Russians, is now bent upon the speed-up disguised as "Stakhanovism...
...attached to an evacuated box such as is used in an ordinary aneroid barometer. Every time the contact crosses a thread, a corresponding interruption occurs in the radio signal. This signal was received on a rotating drum. The distance between the interruptions and the number of them tells the speed of ascent and the height...
...last act moves with power and speed, clearly marking it off from the first two. Mr. John Barnard has opportunity to justify his selection for the male lead and does so convincingly and with proper restraint. Miss Hall undergoes a questionable psychological change which should bring goose flesh, but her voice doesn't change...
...amassed ten points in the first five minutes before the bewildered terriers could recover themselves. Fesler then sent in his fast, all-sophomore, second string to bear the brunt of the attack for the rest of the period. This group, composed of Lowman, McGowan, Herrick, Snell, and Wills, had speed and aggressiveness, but their handling of the ball was not sure and they showed their lack of experience...