Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Substantial justice" is the desideratum which the new rules (86 of them) aim to speed and attain. New in the U. S. (but familiar in England) is a provision for pre-trial hearings,† wherein a judge (who later is not the trial judge) calls before him the lawyers for both sides of a civil suit, determines with them the real issues involved, weeds out unessential witnesses, evidence and testimony, shortcuts the lawyers' technical maneuvers, (demurrers, motions to strike out, etc., etc.), thus saves time for the trial judge, jury and clients. The new rules also provide...
...Army Air Corps. Last week the Air Corps received from President Roosevelt this year's Collier Trophy for "the greatest achievement in aviation whose value has been demonstrated in actual use." Meantime, aeronautical science has its sleeves rolled up to attack the problem of full utilization of substratosphere speed potentials...
...difficulty of substratosphere flying is that in the thin upper air a propeller blade has to take bigger or more frequent bites of air to maintain the ship's speed and altitude. By increasing the pitch of propeller blades bigger bites are possible, but wind-tunnel experiments have indicated that any propeller's effectiveness reaches a limit when the speed of its blade tips surpasses the speed of sound (at sea level, 780 m.p.h.; at 20,000 ft., 500 m.p.h.). When propeller tips reach the speed of sound, they find themselves in a sort of dead heat with...
...With aviation seemingly crowding the barriers of physical possibility, few aeronautical visionaries are prepared to admit the feasibility of a 900 m.p.h. airplane, 120 m.p.h. faster than the speed of sound, twice as fast as man has ever flown, nearly thrice as fast as man has traveled on land (see p. 47). But Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would...
...satisfactory auto-racing strip in the world,* the two Englishmen, with no more fanfare than two moppets sliding down a hill to see who could go farther, took turns to see who could come closer to traveling six miles a minute-and incidentally break the world's land-speed record of 311 miles an hour, set last year by Captain Eyston...