Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shipping circles as a thrust at the Cunard Line, which last fortnight (TIME. Jan. 7) began cutting into U. S. Lines, Havana trade by putting the 20,000-ton Caronia on the New York-to-Cuba route. Angry, the U. S. Shipping Board loaned its crack trans-Atlantic steamer, speed, the President Roosevelt, to the (U. S.) Ward Line, thus promised the Caronia the best competition that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound, on the same day. The Caronia is more...
Died. Joseph Willard Legg, 41, famed expert in oscillography (wave phenomena), inventor of the osiso (portable oscillograph) and the polar high-speed camera. Westinghouse associate; of pneumonia; in Wilkinsburg, Pa. With his camera, which takes 3,000 pictures a second, Inventor Legg discovered that lightning flashes are a series of complex spirals...
...Ford and G. M. C. invitations looked to speed up Russian industry. The country has 150,000,000 population, but only 22,000 motor vehicles, 40,000 tractors. Complementary to this intention the Soviet has just placed a $250,000 order for truck engines and transmissions with Hercules Motor Corp. of Canton, Ohio, and Brown-Lipe-Chapin Co. (G. M. C. subsidiary) of Syracuse, N. Y. Russians will assemble the machinery in Russian-made 3½-ton trucks and busses...
Upton, still a marked man, was unable to score from the floor, while Rex and Wenner ran up the score between them. Farrell showed marked improvement over his form in the Worcester contest, but lacked the speed to break away from the Middlebury guards, who worked together in splendid coordination...
Appearance (to please ladies) remains the chief car-selling point. Next comes speed; then brakes, pickup, durability, price. The cheaper cars developed a new market during 1928 among people who own luxurious cars and can use an auxiliary gadabout...