Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks were assigned to the French Destroyer Foudroyant, bucking and wallowing through the gale. Since no destroyer could keep up speed in such a blow, the Normandie, designed as the world's fastest liner with a speed of 32 knots plus, soon vanished from the Foudroyant's sight, planned to cruise to the Azores, returning for her maiden voyage from Havre to Manhattan...
...contactor" developed in his laboratories-a centrifugal machine for fractional distillation. A fractionator of the orthodox gravity type would have to be 700 ft. high, said he, to compete with his trim little machine in efficiency. Heart of the device is a conical coil which is rotated at such speed that the heated contents are squeezed by a force 1,500 times gravity. Outlets at the base of the spinning coil provide very fine separation by density. The super contactor was de-signed to extract from petroleum certain hydrocarbons never before obtained in the pure state, to produce heavy water...
High-Test. By using phosphoric acid as a catalyst, Dr. Vladimir N. Ipatieff of Chicago obtained from ethylene, propylene and other by-product gases a motor fuel which he said last week increased the speed of an Army airplane by 35 m. p. h. Best available high-test gasolines have an "octane rating" of 76. Dr. Ipatieff believed himself well on the way to a 100-octane motor fuel, great goal of petroleum chemists...
...Kibbee, Aline McMahon and a crowd of clever youngsters keep the first moving at top speed. It is a comedy of the role the local newspaper plays in politics...
Spray foamed from the silver hull as it gathered speed under the surge of its four Hornet motors. After a half-minute run, the 21-ton Pan American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this...