Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steaming out of Manhattan last week the 80,000-ton, 200,000-horsepower Queen Mary strove to wrest the Harold Keates Hales Trophy for transatlantic speed from the 83,000-ton 160,000-horsepower Normandie which in June 1935 set the record: 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes (average 30.31 knots). The Cunard White Star liner rounded Bishop's Rock this week to win in 3 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes (average 30.63 knots) She can thus hoist the "Blue Ribbon," take the Hales Trophy from the French liner, advertise herself as "the world's fastest ship...
Jesse Owens of the animal world is the cheetah, a species of Asiatic wildcat which can run 70 m.p.h. for distances up to 100 yards. For longer stretches the world's speed champion is the U. S. pronghorn antelope, which can maintain 60 m.p.h. for several miles, 35 m.p.h. almost indefinitely. Rancher Charles J. Belden of Pitchfork, Wyo. once chased a herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years...
...Great Britain. In 1933 Inventor Seversky began toying with ambitious- amphibian ideas, produced a plane which could land on snow, water or land. By last year he had developed this chunky, all-metal, single-motored monoplane so well that in it he set a world speed record for amphibians (230.4 m.p.h...
...Army trainer competition. Despite jeers from other competitors, it won a contract for 35 planes at a cost of $874,000. Designer Seversky continued to tinker his plane, last June produced a pursuit model which is said to be among the world's fastest, with a top speed of nearly 300 m.p.h. After a competition at Dayton, the Army bought...
...three laps with Ny leading, Cunningham second, Lovelock third. Then, still a good 300 metres from the finish, Lovelock began his amazing sprint. It carried him, a tiny light-footed figure in loose, black shirt and shorts, past the leaders and down the stretch in such a burst of speed that Cunningham, famed for his own finishing kick, was actually losing ground until Lovelock turned to glance casually at the field strung out behind him and then coasted through the tape, first by six full yards...