Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atlantic shipping lines, Seaboard Railways and unfriendly shippers protested bitterly to the Shipping Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission that the Seatrain, a floating railroad yard with a mile of track below-deck to hold 100 loaded freight cars, was damagingly unfair competition. Seatrain New York has a speed of 16 knots, can carry freight faster than any coastwise freighter, can lighter it from Hoboken to New Orleans in six days for half the rail fare. The Shipping Board handed down a last-minute decision while Seatrain New York was fidgeting in New York Harbor: Seatrain Lines Inc. will...
...satisfy the tenants' demand for speed and the owners' need of profit is a complex problem which Carl F. Scott, Manhattan engineer, discussed in the current Engineering News-Record...
...loyalists." The Vagabond remembers, as the Vagabond remembers most things, how the Seniors at Harvard dressed only in American-made clothes, and held no Commencement, "on account of the confusion and distress of the times." Then it was that the College moved en masse to Concord "with all convenient speed," and one student who was absent during the whole Concord session, pleaded that he had "been found guilty and imprisoned by the General Court, for frequent clamoring, in the most impudent, insulting, and abusive language, against the American Congress." But the poor fellow was alone in his opinions...
...average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating, Gar Wood, defender of the Harmsworth Trophy, smiled contentedly. He had kept a promise to his country and himself...
Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 75, was summoned to appear in a Plymouth, Mass, traffic court. Charge: cutting out of line at high speed...