Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gary, Indiana, last week, one Al Shaw was arrested for driving his automobile too slowly (15 m.p.h.). The State of Rhode Island, in an effort to speed up traffic, now has a law that passenger cars on open roads must travel at least 35 m.p.h. Indiana and Rhode Island notwithstanding, the legal speed limit of Prague, Czechoslovakia remains a conservative 9 m.p.h. (15 kilometers) where it was fixed by the Bohemian Government...
Moving only at the legal snailpace, Prague automobiles chugged leisurely through the streets. Raging policemen vainly tried to speed them up. Prague chauffeurs stoutly refused to break the law. Travelers missed their trains, traffic tangled in market place, stalled on bridges. The chauffeurs, enjoying themselves hugely, continued to bump slowly over the cobblestones. At nightfall gleeful Prague taxi drivers considered the old speed laws as good as repealed...
Hence prize contestants must fly level at no faster than 35 m.p.h., get a variable speed in normal flight of 45 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., glide three minutes at 38 m.p.h. with engine shut off, land within a 100-ft. space, take off in 300 ft., gain more than 35 ft. altitude within 500 ft. of starting takeoff, and fly "hands off." A manufacturer's pilot may put the plane through its best maneuvers. Guggenheim Fund pilots then try the plane themselves...
When Morgan-Men first discussed the food merger, the Fleischmann distributing system was an important consideration. The only rival for speed and regularity admitted by Fleischmann in daily national distribution is the U. S. Post-Office. The only foodstuff rivals are the various milk companies, none of which are nationwide in scope. Fleischmann's yeast is delivered fresh every day to more than 30,000 bakeries and to 250,000 groceries, delicatessens, hotels and other retail outlets. No jobbers are used?delivery is direct from 900 Fleischmann agencies. Fleischmann's operates a transportation subsidiary which has 200 railroad cars...
...Last week one John Salo, plodding Passaic, N. J., policeman, reached Los Angeles, where he had pegged from Manhattan. His running had not been in vain, for he was winner of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle's transcontinental bunion derby. In a burst of finishing speed, Runner Salo galloped 26 miles around Wrigley Field, while ten thousand Californians cheered, hooted, whistled. His cross-country time: 526 hr., 57 min., 30 sec. His winning purse...