Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrowplane's speed exceeds requirements by 4 m. p. h. It lands at 40 m. p. h., stops in 30 ft., gets 13½ mi. per gal. of fuel, can supposedly be flown with safety by a novice after two hours' instruction. Secretly tested for six months on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, the strange-looking craft was last week publicly demonstrated for the first time in Los Angeles, where its unconventional behavior alarmed experienced observers until they became used to it. "It leaped into the air," wrote one correspondent, "like a chicken going over...
Most modern aircraft use two kinds of brakes: wheel-brakes on the ground, and "air brakes" (wing flaps) to reduce flying speed. Last week a third kind of brake was being tested on Pan American Airways' big transoceanic Clipper Ships...
...Hales Trophy is three and a half feet of solid silver, onyx and gilt, showing Victory, Neptune and Amphitrite upholding a globe and topped by a figure called Speed urging a liner into the face of a figure called The Force of the Atlantic. Roundabout were memorials to past record-holders and at the base was Harold Hales's name...
TIME has won its place at the top of my must program of reading by the completeness, accuracy, speed and readableness with which it reports the news. In the July 15 issue, however. TIME outdoes itself when it reports that my railroad is "in the courts.'' I suggest you take a look at the record...
Rembrandt kept spending money at top speed though he was no longer getting portrait commissions. This procedure came to its inevitable finish when in 1657, at the age of 51, he was officially declared bankrupt. Saskia's kinsmen had got in time's nick a second mortgage on the house, to safeguard Titus' depleted legacy. At the forced sale of Rembrandt's collections, the prices bid were under what Dutchmen were accustomed to bid for paintings. He saved his etching plates, however, and got a little money for himself from the sale of prints...