Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relief. It is no easy matter to spend billions and billions of dollars month after month at top speed. President Roosevelt has regularly overestimated his Administration's capacity in this respect. Of $10,569,000,000 which he foresaw the U. S. spending in fiscal 1934, only $6,745,000,000 was actually disposed of. Year by year afterward he overestimated the New Deal's spendings in only less conservative fashion. But with an election only ten months off this kind of conservatism no longer appeals to him. Said he last week: "The finances of the Government...
...unheralded to comb this or that Italian bank's books personally, while its officers simper and squirm. Last week Signor Azzolini made several most exalted persons squirm. After going over the quantities of gold wedding rings, gold cups and gold medals presented by Italians to their State to speed the war (TIME, Dec. 30), the Bank of Italy announced that the "gold" medal given to His Excellency Benito Mussolini by His Holiness Pope Pius XI to commemorate the solution of the Roman Question had turned out to be gold only on the surface. Thousands of gold wedding rings proved...
...violate, but instead reason for observing, laws with particular scrupulousness. This appeared to most Iranian aristocrats both unreasonable and silly. During Prohibition the entire corps diplomatique exercised their immunity to have liquor shipped to them in Washington. And if the envoy of the King of Kings has immunity to speed, how, Iranians asked, can Mr. Hull deduce from this an obligation to drive slowly...
...taste of combat since the vacation when they will meet Gardiner High School Saturday evening in the Harvard pool. The Gardiner teams are usually strong aggregations and constant winners in New England interscholastic, but Muir hopes that some of the untried members of his squad will show hitherto undiscovered speed and ability when under the stress of actual competition
Regarded as a non-passenger truck, though its maker is 51% owned by General Motors, is GMC, which accounts for about 2% of the business. Reo's famed Speed Wagons and heavy-duties run about 1 % in the registration figures. Studebaker and Willys each make a few thousand yearly, and the rest of the truck makers share a tiny market that is growing tinier. Prosperity returned only to the makers of light trucks last year...