Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somebody lying? I was boasting to a friend that TIME was the speediest magazine for printing the news and circulating it on earth. I told him that three years ago you went from Manhattan to Cleveland to speed up your national circulation, and last January from Cleveland to Chicago to make it speedier. I told him also that last summer you moved your editorial offices from Cleveland back to Manhattan to get the news quicker and more authentically...
TIME goes to press Tuesday, includes important Tuesday news. Three days later, most of its 220,000 weekly copies have reached subscribers. No magazine can compare with TIME in the matter of speed. However, no one is lying. TIME is the first, the only newsmagazine...
Inventor von Opel had placed a cat in his rocket car (TIME, June 4). He wished to test the resistance of a living organism to high speed. But the car never attained high speed. Instead it exploded. The cat was never found...
...finest motor car smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble...
...planes are Ford all-metal monoplanes, with enclosed cabins seating 12 passengers, plus hand baggage; equipped with three Pratt-Whitney Wasp motors, top speed of 140 m.p.h., cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. The pilots are veterans of the airmail. Safety, comfort, speed are the T. A. T. keynotes...