Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month this high-speed Harvard sophomore made familiar news when, driving to Washington for the Christmas holidays with his brother John, he was arrested near Orange, Conn, for zipping along at 78 m.p.h. over a wet highway, disregarding a red light. By telephone a White House secretary got his trial post-poned until Christmas holidays were over...
Three kinds of earthquake waves speed through the earth from the epicentre. Fastest are P (Push) waves which travel about 5 mi. per sec. They take a nearly straight path through the earth to the recording station. Then come the S (Shear) waves which make about 3 mi. per sec., follow the same path as the P waves. Last come the L (Long) waves which ripple around Earth's surface at about 2 mi. per sec. The transverse shear waves are the crux of an unsettled controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they...
...Chicago and St. Paul, averaging only 58.8 m.p.h. Thirty minutes later The 400 pulls into Minneapolis, making a total run of 450 min. Winner of the Award for Safety among Class A Railroads for the past four years, North Western has no intention of sacrificing safety and comfort for speed, but it is willing to spend money. To operate The 400 costs 95? a mile compared with 75? for regular trains. To the public the fare is the same ($14.67 round-trip...
Highly annoyed by North Western's new train last week was Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Milwaukee officials claimed North Western had "jumped the gun" on a gentlemen's agreement between the Milwaukee, Burlington and North Western to institute high-speed schedules simultaneously next March. Caught napping, the Milwaukee Road quickly inaugurated mile-a-minute service between Chicago and Milwaukee (85 mi.), pushed delivery of two streamlined engines for its Chicago-Twin Cities route. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. quietly announced that it would put two Zephyrs on the Twin Cities run within 60 days, knock...
Auburn brought three lines to show, led by a yellow sport roadster with exposed exhausts and a supercharged engine. Guaranteed speed: 100 m.p.h. Long and handsomely streamlined, the Auburns looked as if Errett Lobban Cord considered it a propitious moment to bid for the swift and flashy market, as he did to his great profit in the first years of Depression...