Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month period, from the bile of slaughtered oxen (40 head are required for a single daily dose). Merck & Co., who make it, produce only about 1½ ounces a week. Acutely conscious of the desperate demand, research chemists have been plugging away at the problem, trying to speed the process and eventually mass-produce the drug...
...last week's test flight, the Jetliner's speed was held down to 317 m.p.h. Jam-packed with testing instruments, the plane is slated for months of rigorous shakedown flights; within six months a second Jetliner is expected to be ready for additional tests...
...Highlands, N.J., 42-year-old Gertrude Ederle, after 23 years still holder of the women's speed record for swimming the English Channel, wished the best of luck to 17-year-old Shirley May France, training for the same feat. In England, Shirley May primly assured the world that there would be a bathing suit under her coat of grease...
...Allowing businessmen to speed up amortization, for tax purposes, of new plants and equipment, thus encouraging them to expand...
Stalks & Stills. At harvest time, Gehring's tractors slash their sickle bars through the 30-inch mint stalks with machine-gun speed. At the "still," the workers tramp the leaves down, 1½ tons at a time, into the huge vats. Then steam is forced through them for 45 minutes to an hour. This boils out the essential mint oils, which are condensed through water-cooled coils and then drained off. The end result is a faintly yellowish-white fluid...