Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxically, the old Ridge Route, though more dangerous from a physical or engineering standpoint, has actually proven safer than the fine new road-all because of the excessive, often reckless, speed that is possible on the new route. REGINALD Moss Berkeley, Calif...
...Townsendites that he had not come to persuade or dictate to them. He simply wanted to tell them a few things about the National Union. Bit by bit. rehearsing his familiar indictments of the Federal Reserve Banks and the "money changers." he stepped up-as Adolf Hitler does-his speed and volume. By the time he reached President Roosevelt's failure to keep his inaugural promise to drive the money changers from the temple, the Priest was sweating as freely as had Preacher Smith...
...deTakats and Murray agree that speed of diagnosis and operation is essential. Says Dr. Murray: "Next to internal and external hemorrhage, embolism of the peripheral arteries is one of the most urgent surgical emergencies. Acute appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, perforated viscus, etc., while better treated at the first possible moment, usually will not be followed by the disastrous results from waiting six to eight hours that may be expected from neglect of an embolus for the same length of time...
...size or character of these structures which gives this project its distinctive character. It is outstanding as a modern traffic artery through a great metropolis, planned to combine speed and safety as well as a form of recreation to the traveling public to an extent not equaled in any similar project...
...long, so successfully has Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood raced his Miss America that many people think he has done nothing else since he was born in the landlocked town of Mapleton, Iowa, 55 years ago. Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last...