Word: speeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Caucus Room darkened just before luncheon, showed the Paramount newsreel to a crowd of 700, including delegations of Senators and Congressmen. The audience was on the edge of its chairs. First the entire film was shown. On the second showing the first few scenes were run off at normal speed, the rest of the action at half speed with occasional stops to let the worst shots sink...
...stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute strength...
...North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece, have a cruising speed of 155 m.p.h. Designed for mail only, they will be catapulted by German ships at each end as were the two Lufthansa planes which test-flew the Atlantic last summer (TIME, Sept. 21). Last week the U. S. gave Lufthansa permission to make more tests. Neither Lufthansa nor Air France...
...Round-trip fare: $180. Both planes are four-motored flying boats with similar speed and weight, but the Pan American Bermuda Clipper carries 28 passengers to the Imperial Cavalier's 16. The run takes 5 ½ hr. The Clipper leaves Long Island every Thursday, returns Sunday. The Cavalier leaves Long Island Saturday, returns Wednesday. Airmail is carried from Bermuda in the Cavalier. No airmail can be carried to Bermuda because the U. S. Post Office has not awarded a contract...
...Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow of new steam into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating for relief. Then...