Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wife of the Year (see p. 12), became last week the first prominent Chinese Government official to attempt to leave China since the Japanese captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27). Boarding an airplane at Hankow, Son Sun gave out that he was flying to Hong Kong, would thence speed to Europe on a trip including Moscow. Meanwhile Communist leaders in China were loudly demanding the resignation of various prominent members of the Government which has had to flee Nanking and disperse itself in various Chinese cities (TIME, Nov. 29). The Reds had not yet asked that the Man of the Year...
...President Patterson and President Smith of American had dinner together and talked things over. At the end of the evening they had come to an agreement. The likelihood was that American would stop mentioning the Low Level Route and go back to decently competitive remarks on noncombustible topics like speed, comfort and hostesses...
...Last week the Maritime Commission called for bids on twelve new fast cargo ships, some of which American Export will presumably buy. The specifications are for single screw steel ships: length, 435 ft.; breadth, 63 ft.; draft, 25¼ ft.; speed 15½ knots (about 17½ m.p.h. 6 m.p.h. faster than average U. S. freighters); range, 13,000 miles; to cost around $1,700,000 each and to be completed within 14 months. All must be swiftly convertible into useful war vessels...
...When it turned out to be immense, the Marshall Field manufacturing division took a whale of a loss on its huge cotton orders. What was worse, Mr. McKinsey, for all his theoretical skill, foresaw no business depression ahead and the manufacturing division kept on turning out goods at top speed all last spring. When excess inventory caught up with the Fieldcrest mills, they were definitely hard hit. The manufacturing division is now contracting like a scared shellfish...
...cords of wood on its 1,100-mile trip from New Orleans to St. Louis, a third of its round-trip expense of $3,200. He put down the population of the towns he passed, the number of rooms in the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, the speed of railroads, the price of cotton. But the most notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well...