Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chosen for the return trip because of her speed, the Memphis is less steady at sea than the battleship Texas, which took the President to Havana. While the Memphis rushed homewards at 25 knots, the Texas plowed along behind more slowly but on a more even keel...
...speed of 165 m. p. h. at 20,000 feet...
...supercharger (fuel evaporizer) to maintain this speed through the increasingly rarified atmosphere from 20,000 to 35,000 feet...
...Navy's court of inquiry on the S-4 disaster (TIME, Dec. 26 et seq.), closed its hearings at Boston last week. Summing up, Navy men blamed Coast Guardsmen, who blamed Navy men, for the collision in which either a) the destroyer Paulding, scouting at top speed for rum-boats, gored the rising submarine 54, or b) the S-4 "ran into the Paulding." Evidence showed: that the Paulding's inexperienced lookout had mistaken the S-4's splashing periscope for a fishnet buoy; that the Navy had not notified the Coast Guard that submarines were operating on the Provincetown...
...were classed the great and rationally truculent: 1) Fallen War Lord Trotsky; 2) Onetime Soviet Ambassador to Paris Christian Rakovsky; 3) Leading Soviet Propagandist Karl Radek. These and their immediate followers were sent away to individual exile in separate, widely dispersed towns of Asiatic Russia. Trotsky was scheduled to speed by rail from Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands...