Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost as big as the Sikorsky and Martin transoceanic Clipper ships, the new Boeing is said to weigh 30,000 Ib. loaded, carry six tons of bombs, have a top-speed of 250 m.p.h., a ceiling of 25,000 ft., a range of 2,500 mi. without refueling. Actual performance figures were secret...
Small, dark-eyed, prolific Author Baldwin took quick advantage of her first success, and at great speed, using the amateur's hunt and peck system, in the next five years typed out 16 serials as well as many a short story. Her grammar was shaky, her punctuation poor, but rates for her work increased steadily, until she now receives more than $50,000 for each of her magazine serials, is approaching Kathleen Norris' top mark of approximately $75,000 a serial for three serials a year. Unlike Romancer Norris, who can carry on a conversation and manage...
...term "Baby Clipper" was first used in news stories on May 3 describing the new Fairchild high-speed amphibian, fastest single-engine amphibian transport in the world...
...that time the Diesel engine was a cumbersome, slow affair which weighed some 250 lb. per horsepower, had a top-speed of 500 r. p. m. But heavy or light, slow or fast, it was still the most efficient engine in the world. Mr. Cummins set about making the Diesel engine lighter, faster, kept an eye cocked on Europe and its Diesel-powered vehicles...
...little Georgia weekly called the Soperton News. Later that year a group of nine Georgia dailies simultaneously ran off one day's edition on all-Georgia newsprint. The newspapers paid freight to and from Canada on 25 tons of local pine pulp to be manufactured there on high-speed paper machines...