Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning in Denver last week, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., Manufacturer Edward Gowan Budd (no kin), many a Burlington and Budd technician, 20 newshawks and one burro boarded Burlington's silvery new high-speed Diesel-powered train. A full third of the way across the continent in Chicago that day, A Century of Progress was opening for its second year. Clackety-clack-streamlined, shovel-nosed Zephyr slid out of the Denver yards at 6.05 a. m. While passengers settled themselves in its three articulated compartments. Zephyr picked up speed. For a while...
...when, injured, he saved the day for Annapolis on the football field, spurred the Midshipmen to victory over Army, 6-4. After graduation he entered the engineering division, was in the belly of the U. S. S. Oregon, crowding steam into her old boilers to drive her at destroyer speed around Cape Horn from San Francisco in time for the battle of Santiago. For that deed well done Joseph Reeves was advanced four numbers in rank...
...weighs 200 lb. and is reputed to be one of the best bagatelle players in the U. S. He wears a big black hat and his trousers outside his boot tops, speaks little and that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit." One morning last week he was in Bienville...
...Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal to William Edward Boeing. Last week the Collier Trophy- third in the trinity of aviation's outstanding awards-went to Frank Walker Caldwell for the "greatest achievement in aviation in America" during the past year. His achievement: the "controllable-pitch" propeller, which enables high-speed planes to take off quickly, climb rapidly, fly efficiently at high altitudes. Presentation of the trophy is made annually by the President of the U. S. Graduate of the University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he built a glider and wrote a thesis on propellers), Frank Caldwell...
...display in the Coney Island yards of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. last week was the first high-speed aluminum train to be tried on New York City's vast subway system. At leather seats, indirect lighting, pastel color schemes, chimes for sliding doors, subway sardines gaped in astonishment. But a modern subway train was not the only BMT exhibit of the week. Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl was busy giving the first successful demonstration of how to circumvent the Securities Act of 1933. BMT's toothy, argumentative chairman was not bothered by any looming bond maturities. That problem...