Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a premium on speed, immediate Rightist objective last week was to capture by surprise the gigantic hydroelectric Tremp station, before the Leftists should make again their standard move of dynamiting a big dam rather than let it be captured. In a panting, breathless five-mile drive, Rightists under General José Moscardó got possession of Tremp in time's nick, for otherwise the flood of water released would have swept away whole villages, drowned thousands in 247,000,000 cubic feet of water...
...with ordinary traffic and lined with thousands of spectators. When, during the race last week, two of the 143 roaring racers zoomed off the road, killing ten bystanders and injuring 32, the Italian Government decreed an end to the race they instituted twelve years ago as a test of speed and daring...
...industrial) age concentrates the eloquence of generations of reformers, the enlightenment of generations of thinkers, besides his own exceptional talents for raking up the coals. For the social chaos and loss of architectural form which overcame the city during the 18th and 19th Centuries the only excuse was the speed of industrial expansion and the colossal rise in the population of Europe. "It was a period of vast urban improvisation: makeshift piled upon makeshift. . . . Until 1838 neither Manchester nor Birmingham even functioned politically as incorporated boroughs: they were man heaps, machine-warrens, not organs of human association...
...relieved of its present necessity to certify that roads applying for RFC loans are not in need of reorganization; 3) wage cuts; 4) abolition of the reduced rates on Government traffic over the so-called land-grant lines; 5) amendment of section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act to speed railroad reorganizations, possibly by a special railroad court; 6) the Government to guarantee or underwrite bonds issued in voluntary railroad reorganizations to insure their payment and thus expedite reorganizations...
Long-range Proposals: 1) Creation of a three-man Federal Transportation Authority to plan and promote operating economies and speed consolidations, unification of terminal facilities, car and revenue pooling, etc.; 2) methods of correcting railroad financing abuses to be left to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which is now investigating them; 3) consideration of the desirability of placing all forms of transport under "equal and impartial regulation of a single agency of Government...