Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poured forth goods and foodstuffs like a great machine being pushed to its ultimate, agonizing peak of performance. Last week the nation heard the wheels slow down a few revolutions. Though they had cursed inflation to a man, U.S. citizens had grown so used to the howl of high-speed gears that any change in pitch sounded ominously like warnings of a slowdown...
Kongsgaard relaxed as he picked up speed ("When the wind starts to bite, I am free from tension"), gave a strong kick as he reached the takeoff. A few seconds later the crowd let out a roar. His 290-ft. jump was 60.96 feet short of the world mark, but it had set a new U.S. (and North American) record, breaking the old one of 289 feet set by his late countryman, Torger Tokle* at Iron Mountain, Mich, seven years...
...Constitution, the largest commercial-type land plane in use. Built for the U.S. Navy, the Constitution took off last week from Moffet Field, Calif., on its maiden passenger trip to Washington. Six auxiliary jets helped the plane cut its take-off run. The double-decked Constitution broke no speed records (it made the trip in 9 hrs. 35 min.), but it carried 90 people, the largest number ever flown in a nonstop transcontinental flight. Though Lockheed has no commercial orders for the plane, President Robert Gross thinks it would be a moneymaker. It could carry 180 passengers nonstop between...
...part everybody wanted to hear was Earl Torgeson on "how to hit a baseball a long distance, away from the outfielders, at high speed, and with consistency." The erstwhile Earl of Snohomish had a few cardinal rules for hitters...
Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...