Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said he: "America has been extraordinarily kind to me. But I cannot wholly admire your civilization. There is too much noise and speed, too much emphasis on mere material prosperity, too much desire to show off and attract attention, and too much selling...
...days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes in the upper surface of the whalelike hull inhale air. The engines, developing 2,400 horsepower, will propel the craft 62 m. p. h.* It will carry eight passengers and enough fuel for 60 hours cruising at top speed. Before the end of 1927, Signor Bugatti hopes to send his boat on its maiden voyage...
...Cunard liner Mauritania, swiftest on the Atlantic, has attained a speed of 27 knots (about 31 m. p. h.). She crosses the Atlantic in slightly under five days. The speediest U. S. motor boats (such as those owned by Gar Wood) travel...
Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
...fact remains that Wagner's amours have only such significance as they have attained in their mutation into art. Louis Barthou's book competently threads together previously known facts, describes with Gallic wit and speed encounters of that nature which Frenchmen, both in funny papers and reality, enjoy with special gusto. But since it tells little that is new and only brushes over the old, it is to be regarded more as a series of entertaining anecdotes than as a consequential item in the lists of Wagnerian biography...