Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Respected Mr. Hayashi is president of the highly profitable and progressive Tokyowan Kisen Kaisha (Tokyo Bay Steamship Co.) which is proudly building the world's first airflow liner. This streamlined Diesel beauty will speed tourists and prospective suicides from Tokyo 59 miles to the Island of Oshima in 3½ hours. President Hayashi has provided all sorts of conveniences to get passengers from the landing dock up sulphur-belching Mihara-yama (Mount Mihara) to popular Suicide Point on the crater's brim. One may even ride a camel, one of the first three ever imported into Japan...
...Datsun advertisements the happy passengers are whites, even when the entire text is in Japanese. Prices f.o.b. Yokohama: Roadster, Yen 1,775 ($514.75); Phaeton, Yen 1,850 ($536.50) ; Sedan, Yen 1,975 ($572.75).* Advertised mileage: 50 per gallon. Speed: 45 m.p.h. Rueful Manhattan executives of Mitsubishi admit that there is not a single Datsun in North America (Chile has many), offer eagerly to supply a sedan (considered their swankiest model) for $660 at Mitsubishi Co. Ltd., No. 120 Broadway...
...sleek little mail plane will perch atop the "mother ship" for the takeoff. With eight engines (four apiece) wide open, the Composite Aircraft will be able to rise easily as a single unit. Securely locked together, the two planes will climb to some 5,000 ft. There, when sufficient speed is attained, they will separate. The mail plane, now able to stay aloft by itself, will get under way across the Atlantic. The "mother ship," its work done, will return to its base. At the end of its journey the mail plane, most of its fuel consumed, will be able...
Applauding Tilden for his endurance, Vines for his bulletlike speed, tennis critics last week were favorably impressed by Lott & Stoefen. Given time to grow accustomed to canvas-covered courts, indoor lights, the behavior of spectators who do not feel obliged to remember their good manners. Lott & Stoefen may yet win a majority of their matches on the current tour. Like last year's, it will last 15 weeks, play in 74 cities. Next fortnight's billings: Boston, Providence, New Haven, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis...
Most new stars have risen to "maximum brightness" with violent speed within a day or two of discovery, but Nova Herculis, first seen as a third magnitude star on December 14, grew steadily and slowly brighter for nine more days, finally reaching the first magnitude...