Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exposition offers no French motor cars, but at 15,000 francs or $560 was offered last week the two-cylinder 32 h. p. Taupin monoseater sport plane, built for safe piloting by amateurs and said to be capable of landing at a speed of only 12½ m. p. h. Slightly larger French sport planes, carrying two, yet also geared to private purchasers in the lowest price class are offered at $900 with a ceiling of 18,000 feet, cruising speed...
...first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base at Alexandria, pays rent. But Egyptians agree to build and pay for an entire system of strategic highways fanning out from Suez, so that in a few hours British motorized land forces can speed to any part of Egypt. Only after these roads have been completed does Britain agree to withdraw her present garrisons in Egypt, although Article I of the treaty reads in full: "The military occupations of Egypt by-the forces of His Majesty the British King and Emperor is terminated...
...preparations for the ''War in the Air." Military planes and pilots held the stage and Germany, at least, took full advantage of the occasion, competing in all events which she thought she could win, avoiding others. She won the meet hands down, taking first places in the speed, climbing & diving, and solo Alpine circuit races in the new Messerschmidt pursuit planes with which she has decided to replace her Heinkels. Germany also won the Alpine circuit races for three-plane patrols and multimotor bombers. Captain Michy of France won the altitude contest in a Mureaux-113 by climbing...
...Oregon, and in the race that ensued, the Bay State not only passed the other ship easily but added insult by crossing her bow. The Bay State could make the New York-Fall River trip in eleven hours, burning 44 tons of coal. In 1854 she yielded the speed crown to the Metropolis. According to one historian, when the Metropolis was under way "the disturbance in the water through which she was passing was such as to give the appearance of her pushing the whole body of water before...
Even more shocking to Judge Barnes was "the lack of care manifested by the officers of the Harris Trust & Savings Bank in the selection of this new manager." The speed with which the bankers acted and the lack of care in picking their representative, held the judge, were "equaled or exceeded by the diligence with which Mr. Skinner proceeded to tear down and destroy the organization, business and goodwill" of the old brewery...