Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters of U. S. aircraft and aeronautical products). Last week Sperry Corp. issued its statement for the first half of 1937-net profits from operations $1,186,000, up almost100% from the same period last year...
...changing the design of its propellers (deepening the pitch and adding a fourth blade), the S. S. Normandie last month recaptured the Atlantic speed record (TIME, Aug. 16). Even more striking are the results that have been attained in the last four years by changing the design of airplane propellers. Until 1933 there had been only two major improvements in the paper airscrew invented by Leonardo da Vinci some 450 years before to pull toy helicopters to the ceiling of his study. One was the Wright Brothers' development of a two-bladed '"prop" of laminated wood, the other...
When a man outruns a horse, it isn't news. Last December Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a hundred-yard course in Havana, but it is an old carnival stunt. A man reaches his maximum speed in a few seconds. Over limited distances he can run up a big lead before the horse gets going. But last week in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., a man-&-horse race was given a new twist...
With a spanking breeze on the quarter the two ships might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
...fish, he said, moved close to the water surface, covered up to 50 yards in a flight, would sometimes make "a slight turn of some 20 degrees or so . . . to the left or to the right, and in each case the flight continued at what appeared to be uniform speed. Sometimes a short flight might"be renewed. One seemed to see the wings extended at an angle upward in a fluttering blur of movement...