Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech impediment, read off without a single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges to unjam the divorce courts; publicize the health services; expand housing; regulate the working conditions of truck drivers and raise the efficiency of the United Kingdom...
...cost of over $1,000,000 the New York Stock Exchange installed a high-speed ticker service of N. Y. Quotation Co. The new tickers printed 500 characters a minute instead of the 300 characters of earlier machines. To the despair and confusion of brokers and speculators, however, tickers still run far behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme...
...Union Jack, is called Thunderbolt and is described by courtesy as an automobile. Last week he took this gadget out on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, warmed up its 24-cylinder, 4,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce twin engines, and made a try at the 301 m.p.h. land speed record established by Sir Malcolm Campbell two years...
Since his trials had only begun, it seemed likely that Sir Malcolm's speed record would soon fall, and if it does the details of Captain Eyston's contraption would be released to satisfy the curiosity of the public and provide advertising copy for the manufacturers who contributed to its still secret construction...
Torb Macdonald, too, wasn't in what you might call the pink of condition. Although there seems to be little doubt that he, Harding and Struck will be ready to go at top speed by the end of the week, they will need every one of the days between now and Saturday to revover completely. It is rest more than practice that the squad needs now, and Dick Harlow has lightened his afternoon schedules considerably with this in mind. There will be no scrimmage this week...