Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coast and point-to-point faster than men had traveled such distances before, he used to crow: "That's the way the airlines could fly this route if they'd take that outside plumbing off their ships." Recent years have seen most of Frank Hawks's speed records fall to Howard Hughes, but they have also seen the "outside plumbing" disappear from commercial aviation. By 1935, when Frank Hawks quit flying for Texaco, the 200-mile-an-hour transport flying he predicted had been approached...
...year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, British auto racer, after driving his seven-ton, eight-wheeled, 3,600-h.p. Thunderbolt 13 miles along a black line on Utah's famed Bonneville salt flats one morning last week. His time for the measured mile (preceded by six to speed up and six to slow down) was the fastest land mark ever made-*-36 miles an hour faster than the world's record (311.42 m.p.h.) he set on the same course in the same car last November. It could not go down in the record books, however, because...
Three days later, Captain Eyston tried again, succeeded in breaking his old record officially with an average speed of 345.49 m.p.h. First to congratulate him was his rival, Fur Broker John Cobb, another 200-lb. Briton, who was on the sidelines last week-waiting for his inning. John Cobb's car has a detachable aluminum body that weighs only 500 lb., can be dented by a man's fist and is placed over the driver like the cover of a roasting pan. Cooped in his pan, Driver Cobb hopes to go 400 m.p.h...
...Fastest man has ever traveled is 440 m.p.h., a speed attained in the air by Italian Francesco Agello in 1934. Speed record on water is 129 m.p.h., set last September by Britain's Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the land speed record (301 m.p.h.) before Captain Eyston...
Track coach Jaako Mikkola and assistant Ed Neufeld will be only too glad to speed you on the cinders or hills end dales, and numerals are awarded for that. When head crew mentor Tom Bolles arrived from Washington to put New London sweep was tops, he brought assistant Harvey Love with him, and Love will start Freshman fall practice almost immediately. Singles sculling, for those more individually inclined, is also one of the most popular forms of Yardling exercise...