Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been sustained by members of the Interstate Commerce Commission with few exceptions. The "cut rates" on long hauls are the result of competition with water routes-ocean, lake or Panama Canal. A railroad gets business in the first instance for service which water routes cannot render (service of speed, service to interior localities), for which it charges presumably a fair rate. But the more business a railroad gets, the less its operating cost per ton per mile, the greater its profits. So, to swell the volume of its business, a railroad will take business at "cut rates" which otherwise...
...adhering to the World Court, at which the reservations set forth by the U. S. Senate (TIME, Feb. 8, THE CONGRESS) as the conditions of U. S. adherence to the World Court might be amicably considered. Sir Austen called attention to the fact that this proposal is designed to speed up action by the Court nations upon the U. S. reservations, since if the whole matter should be thrashed out by diplomatic notes among the 55 nations concerned, it might drag on for years (see THE CONGRESS...
...Czar that the mobilization was to be general until July 30. Germany, who had been forced to keep her army in readiness by the preparations of her rivals realized in the last days of July, when she could see that war was inevitable, that her only chance lay in speed...
Lieutenant Brown, who is commanding officer of the Airport, told his audience of some of the recent notable achievements of the Army Air Service, especially the 1924 world flight, for which he had charge of the ground organization. The 1923 world speed and altitude records were also captured by the Army, and although they have since passed to France, the speaker predicted that the United States would recapture them this year. Important developments, both commercial and military, were forecast by Lieutenant Brown...
...specialization. A superficial knowledge of the subject matter in several fields does not offer the needed broadening and training of minds which the situation in colleges calls for. I would suggest rather a compromise study of some related whole which would have as its primary object the training of speed and accuracy in the student mind rather than the filling of it with great amounts of subject matter. We might for instance, devote the whole Freshman year to a study of one period in Greek history...