Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sportsman Flier Howard Hughes has piled up more outstanding aviation records than any professional. Once holder of the world landplane speed record, he has set marks round-the-world, from New York to Paris, Miami to New York, Chicago to Los Angeles, U. S. coast-to-coast. Last week, with no more to urge him on than a seven-mile tail wind and the desire to try out a new type of oxygen mask, Flier Hughes with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 ½-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around...
...biggest anomaly on the curriculum was a demonstration to disprove the popular notion that driving would be made safer if governors were put on cars to limit their top speed. The students saw three demonstration cars almost pile up when a car with a governor, overtaking another, found itself with inadequate emergency power to pass quickly as another car came in the opposite direction...
...experiment of recreating the circumstances of the accident. In a similar Northwest plane with the same load they took off under similar conditions and quickly discovered the accident's cause: The pilot had taken off without a long enough run, and his plane had stalled because of inadequate speed. They discovered also on the ship with which they experimented that a mechanism had been installed to limit the forward movement of the propeller pitch-control lever. They looked for a similar mechanism in the wreckage of the crashed plane, and found it. The investigators concluded that the crash would...
...plank-&-barrel operating table under an apple tree. But despite these primitive conditions, says Hertzler, post-operative infections were not more frequent than in modern hospitals. The secret of successful operations, says Hertzler, is not a fancy operating room but thorough knowledge of anatomy and speed. In his own clinic, built with many a headache, he dispensed with masks. According to "Pop," they only make the operating room look like a harem, give esthetic delight to the modern surgeon who rides to the hospital in a limousine, does nothing more strenuous than change his pants when he gets there...
Next day, on page three of Frank Brett Noyes's dignified Star appeared a three-column ad headed: TRUTH ALONG WITH SPEED. That picture "in an afternoon paper yesterday," the Star snorted, was not Hughes's plane in Minneapolis but Hughes's plane at Floyd Bennett Field before the takeoff. Proudly the Star reprinted its genuine shot of Hughes in Minneapolis...