Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Pilot Bill Wheatley had to say when he landed confirmed Designer Davis' calculations. Consolidated's new 25-ton Model 31 had a high speed of 275 m.p.h. (75 miles faster than Boeing's four-motored 314 clipper), handled nicely in the air. Gasoline consumption showed that she had a range of 10,000 miles with a light passenger load, that she could lug 28 passengers in Pullman accommodations across the Atlantic at a speed unprecedented for commercial flying boats...
After long flights at high altitudes, many commercial pilots are temporarily deaf, hear waterfalls or hissing and crackling sounds that make them sour-tempered and touchy. Army and Navy pilots have the same sensations after tactical flights involving high-speed dives. These sensations were long ago traced to failure of the Eustachian tubes-passages connecting the throat and middle ear-to equalize ear pressures with changes in altitude...
...Annual rolling mill capacity: over 13,000,000 tons. Rolling speed: 1,800 feet a minute...
...industry knows is the capacity of its warehouses. As long ago as last October the warehouses held over 150,000,000 yards of print cloth, about three times as much 'as was sold that month. But the mills, as is their habit, kept operating at close to top speed, meanwhile losing up to ¼? on each yard they loomed. Cotton cloth output in March was 48% above the same month of 1938, while production of all U. S. indus-try was up only 24%. By last week, with the warehouses now crammed with 180-190,000,000 yards...
Seldom have Americans been so beset by history as in the decade from 1928 to 1938. In those ten years, history rushed at them like an attack of modern high-speed tanks. Business stagnation, unemployment, hunger, despair, menaced millions hourly. Kept on the run, bewildered people had no time to take stock of the very events they were running from...