Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Timesman who-looks like a character from The Front Page, has been a speed skater, cyclist, jockey, milkwagon driver, chemist, mathematician, perfume manufacturer and aviator...
...these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through a hatch in the nose 4,000-lb. tractors or standard army dump trucks may be driven right aboard. Depending on the fuel requirements, the Babb Special's payload capacity...
Knowing well that he would be roasted to a turn in the Senate for his tax-spend-elect slogan, but expecting to be confirmed eventually by about a 2-to-1 vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political...
...start work on the Lion and the Temeraire early in 1939. Both will be "about 40,000 tons" and will mount an undisclosed number of 16-inch guns. These are in addition to five 35,000 tonners already on British ways which will match the heavier Japanese battleships in speed...
...former Chairman Myron Taylor in 1928, the Irvin Works cost around $45,000,000, were built in 19 months, have 51 acres under roof. Located atop a hill to avoid floods, the plant will employ 3,750 men at capacity, whisk steel from slab to sheet at a speed of 20 m.p.h. Last week's celebration dealt largely with these marvels, barely touched upon the wider significance of the Irvin Works to the Steel Industry...