Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tycoon Bernstein splashed full-page advertisements in the travel sections of newspapers, took additional pages in the Sunday magazine sections, book review sections, shiny-paper magazines. His ships boasted neither luxury nor speed-all are ten-day boats-but they did offer cheap, clean, comfortable accommodations, efficient service, friendly informality. Food was simple but wholesome and abundant, with German dishes a specialty. All cabins were amidships, all had hot & cold running water, nearly all were outside, none had more than two beds. Just as on big ships, passengers could dance, play deck games, swim in a canvas pool, lounge...
...Campbell has longed to be the first man to break 300. Back at Daytona Beach last fortnight he made a "test run," reached only 233 m. p. h. when his cowling broke, forced him to stop. Next day he hit 270, decided to await better conditions for a real speed attempt. One afternoon last week fire sirens wailed all over Daytona, brought 50,000 people running to the beach...
...Malcolm shifted to second at 100 m. p. h., to high at 200. A whining blue streak of speed, his seven-ton monster covered the course mile in 13 seconds, tore her six tires to shreds. Sir Malcolm did better in the downwind return mile, brought his average to 276.816 m. p. h., a new record but far short of his goal...
...long-range gunfire nine or ten factors might be taken into consideration for computing the most accurate possible trajectory: speed of battleship, speed of enemy ship, drift of waves, wind velocity, shape of shell, muzzle velocity of shell, atmospheric humidity, even the rotation of the earth. Naval engineers might wrestle with their ballistics equations for months to correlate these factors. The machine can do in five minutes what it takes five naval engineers four months to do on paper...
...Travis thinks the machine may solve astronomy's knotty "three-body problem."* Professor Charles DeVan Fawcett, the machine's enthusiastic impresario and financial nurse since its inception, believes it will calculate the factors of maximum efficiency in airplane stabilizers, automatic temperature control, radio, television, "wirephotos," high-speed induction motors...