Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury. Another crew walked off the U. S. Lines' American Traveler with identical demands. By week's end two passenger vessels and four freighters destined for evacuation of U. S. refugees from Europe were tied up, foundering Secretary of State Cordell Hull's plans to speed evacuation on American-flag ships...
...fleets and maps; hourly its influence spread, reaching into the minds of Generals and Premiers. Apparition born of war, fading like some ghostly continent sinking beneath the sea as war continued, for its brief span it ran the Chancelleries, changed the plans, wrote the communiques. It was the speed of Germany's advance through Poland-not the fact of German victory, but the pace of German arms...
...Malcolm Campbell, 54, Britain's famed speedboat racer (141.74 miles per hour on Lake Coniston, England) and holder of the world's automobile speed record when it was 301 m.p.h. (present record: 368.85), who organized a motorcycle militia unit of 162 men last March, reported for service at Britain's War Office on a motorcycle...
...mostly he shook his head over its speed and his bewilderment: "All this has happened in the briefest space of time . . . mere fortnight has passed . . . Poland already has lost her industrial centers . . . no one knows the whereabouts of the Polish Government...
...Stripes and blotches were supposed to do for ships and tanks what stripes and blotches are supposed to do for giraffes and tigers. Camouflage artists called the effect "disruptive coloration." At sea it was meant not to conceal the ship but to spoil U-boats' calculations of its speed and course, make torpedoes miss their mark. Opponents of dazzle long insisted that camouflage should conceal as well as confuse, and since World War I they have waged their own quiet war against disruptive camouflage. When the Aquitania, also painted a solid, muddy grey, slipped into her berth near...