Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan scrapped or converted into aircraft carriers several partially completed boats of this type; and the British were so fortuntate as to be allowed to keep their 41,200-ton battle-cruiser, H. M. S. Hood, a ship carrying eight 15-inch guns, and making a speed of 32 knots, as compared with somewhat over 21 for the Mutsu, Colorado & Nelson...
...surveyed with disfavor a gloomy pathway, splotched with grime and puddles, lined with tracks. "Whatever would they want tracks for?" he inquired of his wife as the three of them jumped down off the platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling mildly with surprise...
...consumption were "less . . . than any of our previous models." Top speed was 65 m.p.h. Getaway and pick-up surpassed many another type of machine. Works. Detroit wiseacres said that production on the new model would be kept down, at first, to around 300 per day. The Ford statement, however, said that all Ford plants were retooled, indicating a readiness to stride out rapidly towards the old Ford supremacy in mass production if the new models -and "moderate" prices-are well received...
...Speed boat racing is dangerous though not so dangerous as it used to be when there were no restrictions on the boats and speeds of 70 miles per hour were achieved. Such boats were too expensive (over $50,000 each). The committee limits Gold Cup racers to 625 inches displacement. Such boats easily make 50 miles per hour. Such boats turn over easily at 50 miles per hour. Drivers and mechanics hit the water hard and break ribs and eardrums easily. George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer, broke ribs and eardrums recently in testing his Greenwich Folly. Unafraid...
...Cealo Mohawk, not previously notable, last week made public a list of speed swims by animals. The New York World looked up the records of Johnny Weissmuller and Martha Norelius, fastest swimming humans, and noted comparisons...