Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder's speed...
...shipyards at St. Nazaire, France, fortnight ago screeched a 30,000-ton French Line luxury ship for the France-South America run. All the 695-ft. vessel's first and second-class rooms, as well as some of the third class, will be outside. Top speed will be 28 knots, far faster than anything in the South Atlantic. Her predecessor was the Atlantique, mysteriously burned out during her trials in 1933, on which London and other insurance groups paid $11,000,000 insurance...
...built in The Netherlands, the Nieuw Amsterdam was solemnly launched by Queen Wilhelmina early in 1937. Due to begin her trial runs in the next fortnight, Holland-America Line's air-conditioned flagship is scheduled to arrive in the U. S. next May. Almost exactly the size and speed of Britain's new Mauretania (see below), The Netherlands' vessel differs from the British ship in that it is streamlined, has egg-shaped, sootless funnels, and its $12,000,000 cost was met entirely without Government subsidy or mail contracts. First ship to explore New York...
...Cunarder, largest liner ever built in England,* and costing an estimated $10,000,000. Launching is scheduled for July. Nearly 3,000 tons bigger than her famed predecessor of the same name-scrapped two years ago-the new ten-deck Mauretania is 750 ft. long and, with a speed of 22 knots from her steam turbines, will cross the Atlantic in six days. Carrying 1,250 passengers and with air-conditioned public rooms, she is specifically designed for competition with such U. S. ships as the Washington and Manhattan. Because of an elaborate gymnasium she will be publicized in England...
...under construction) 16,000; France 11,000; Russia 10,000; Great Britain 9,000; Germany 8,000; Italy 7,000; Japan 7,000." Listeners knew he must be including every last U. S. airplane, from flivver to biggest Army bomber. They knew also that most airplane records for speed, distance and payload, despite Colonel Johnson's claim to "supremacy," are held by other countries. All this raised the old question: "What good are planes without pilots...