Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans have more anti-tank guns than the French, and learned the value of heavy armored tanks after the debacle of the light tanks in Spain. But Germans are way ahead in production of planes, build them with speed and without gadgets, "to fight in . . . [not] to live in." Since kudos goes to Nazi airmen, morale of air force is excellent. Göring's policy is to produce pilots in short order, then turn them loose and depend on the survival of the fittest...
...started another job that may lead 62-year-old Board Chairman Willis Haviland Carrier and his company, largest in the business, into an entirely new field. Already air conditioning is an important factor in the textile industry, which uses controlled humidity to keep threads from breaking on high speed looms. Air conditioning's new job is to improve pig iron...
...drawing boards that would revolutionize military aviation. It did. The ship was the Martin B10, a two-motored monoplane. With a range of 1,800 miles and a bomb load of 2,400 pounds, it could pull away from any pursuit ship then in the air at a top speed of 250 miles an hour. The U. S. Army took 151 of them, the Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being set up for flight this week in Java. Altogether 340 B-10s rolled out through the factory doors, to be flown to nearby...
...contractors, had lost its entry when it started the Senate asking questions: at Santa Monica Test Pilot Johnny Cable cracked up the new Douglas ship, with a French observer aboard, and was killed. Re-entering the competition late, Douglas turned up with a slicked-up job, reputedly with a speed above 400 miles an hour, and, in a Garrison finish, last week took first money...
Frequently he goes to Manhattan, tearing up the highway at breakneck speed with his mother sitting unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken...