Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bugs" galore harassed the hurry-up ships built with PWA money, were still plaguing the Navy in 1936. For speed and efficiency in an essentially industrial enterprise, Franklin Roosevelt needed a man who believed in a Big Navy, who understood manufacturing, who also believed in the New Deal and who had no ingrained reverence for gold braid. All these qualities he found in Charles Edison...
...engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used on such a ship without protruding in speed-killing humps on the wing's leading edges, that only the Allison (TIME, Jan. 30) could do the job cut out for the new fighter...
...first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not extricate...
Captain Harvey Ross of the Crimson team started off the afternoon with a decision over Columbia's sophomore Al Marasca. The Lion wrestler looked outstandingly fast and aggressive for the first part of the match, but he was unable to last it out at that speed...