Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the Atlantic (Ambrose Light to Bishop's Rock) in 3 days, 22 hr., 7 min., fastest crossing in history. Since she had just made a westbound trip in 3 days, 23 hr., 1 min., she acquired, all in ten days, both eastbound and westbound records. Her increased speed is attributed to new propellers with a deeper pitch, and four blades instead of three...
...Indianapolis, Police Captain Lewis Johnson announced the results of municipal research intended to reveal the most efficient speed for expediting traffic. Answer: 23.5 m.p.h. Said Captain Johnson: "At that speed the safe distance between cars is 33 ft. and 2,600 cars can be moved past a given point within an hour...
...Mathematically, an unbroken procession of cars exactly 33 ft. apart and moving at a constant speed of exactly 23.5 m.p.h. would pass a given point at the rate of 3,760 per hour...
...General Udet's luck remained. The cable was mounted on pulleys and counterweights, which allowed it to run out with the plane. The cable stood the shock of the 950-h.p. machine moving at 100 miles per hour. It held the remains of the plane, checked its speed, and, relatively speaking, eased it to the ground. With a scratch on his left arm the German ace stepped out of the wreck...
...first twelve minutes of the race, neither gained. Then the breeze began to freshen, Ranger picked up speed, and both sailed off on a long port tack. Sopwith smartly changed Endeavour's head-sails but when he began to catch up, Vanderbilt changed Rangers. About halfway to the buoy, when both boats went about for the second time. Ranger was half a mile ahead...