Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Publisher Brown and Editor Pew, Editor & Publisher has been a consistent moneymaker. Its most creditable features are thoroughness and speed. Thousands of words of copy, received by wire in Manhattan on Thursday, are read by subscribers on Friday afternoon. But rarely if ever does Editor & Publisher tread upon a toe within the industry. Perennial targets on its editorial page are Radio, press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers...
Land-planes have flown faster than 500 m.p.h.. seaplanes better than 400 m.p.h. To make flying speeds of 500 m.p.h. possible as well as safe, Secretary Ickes last week allotted $478,300 of PWA funds to construct a high-speed wind tunnel at the laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va. Planned for completion within a year, the 154-ft. tunnel will be made of reinforced concrete with steel-plated walls. Through its test chamber, 8-ft, in diameter, fans driven by 8,000-h.p. motors will hurl a 500-m.p.h. hurricane. Said...
...been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell carrying No. 13, Barney Oldfield, whose real name (Berna Oldfield) has 13 letters, won by chugging seven times around a 1,300-ft. course at an average speed of 13 m.p.h...
...anchor with no immediate plans when an excited radio operator rushed into the presence of Admiral Cantu and three Rear Admirals who were swapping yarns aboard his flagship. Instantly Admiral Cantu began to splutter orders. The Rear Admirals were piped off to their ships, engine room lights winked full speed ahead and Italy's first squadron tore for the mountain-jabbed coast of King Zog's Albania...
Backed by Williams' millions. Wedell began building high-speed planes in 1930. Unable to read a blueprint, he built "by ear," learned by experience. Last year in one of his own ships he set the world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.). His wife set the woman's land-plane record in the same ship. Col. Roscoe Turner's West-East transcontinental record 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec.) and East-West record (12 hr. 33 min.) were both made in a Wedell ship...