Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which P. I. D. had no earthly use. Next day, its task accomplished, the "streamlined division" turned back to San Antonio. Texas traffic laws do not limit the length of moving rows of cars. In one huge serpentine column which stretched out to 65 miles long at a speed of 30-35 rn.p.h., the P. I. D.'s 1,180 supply trucks, passenger cars, motorcycles, reconnaissance cars, anti-aircraft trucks and baggage trailers roared over the 326 miles in record time...
...certain categories there is serious shortage. There are only ten combination freight & passenger vessels which could be converted into aircraft carriers. The Navy thinks there should be at least 20. The 300 tankers needed to service the battle fleets are available but there is a deficiency of high-speed tankers (16½ knots or better). When Roosevelt I sent the U. S. Navy around the world in 1908 the fighting ships were followed everywhere by a raffish stream of foreign-flag tenders, a ludicrous exhibition which the Navy Department never forgot...
...three factors involved in college accidents, says the statement, are speed, fatigue, and inattention, all closely related. "Speed, especially when too fast for the conditions of night driving or stormy weather, often sends the car off the highway at a sharp curve. It is responsible for the killing of many pedestrians because the motorist out-drives the lighted path of his headlights...
...fatigue," the release reads, "that causes a driver to doze for a moment, or, through inattention, fail to note a vehicle that has come to a stop just ahead in the same laue of travel. But it is speed, often increasing under these circumstances, that results in the fatal crash...
Truck drivers are spoken of as knowing a lot about the threat and hazard of fatigue, but "college students, who ought to have intelligence comparable to that of a truck driver, even if they lack his experience, appear to pay little attention either to fatigue or speed when completing a long journey at night...