Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an industrialist has come to consider him a vastly capable business executive. In his impressive office in Seattle's Teamsters' Hall, he flips through correspondence at split-second speed and barks out advice and orders to every point of his realm by long-distance telephone. He drives to work in a 1947 Cadillac. Although he is paid $25,000 a year, he lives modestly in the same five-room Ravenna District bungalow in which he and his wife started housekeeping...
...wind-tunnel research. Swept-back wings have two advantages. The air passing over them diagonally (parallel to the plane's motion) acts as if it were passing directly across the wing at right angles to its leading edge. This "short cut" slows the air-stream's apparent speed, and reduces the shockwave difficulties associated with Mach 1 (the speed of sound, 770 m.p.h...
...secret (and the shape itself would be a giveaway) that it was designed to fly considerably faster than Mach 1. Navy Test Pilot Captain F. M. Trapnell, who is putting the XF7U-1 through its paces, said that he has not yet worked it to top speed or top altitude. He expects, however, that it will prove "the fastest of them...
Harvard will meet a variety of Big Seven teams in that Christmas Vacation tourney at Kansas City, but Coach Barclay predicts that the Crimson will be able to match the mid-westerners in size and speed at least. "We have enough players of different shapes and sizes to match any combination we'll run up against," he said yesterday...
...ability to keep going at high speed, despite a long record of maladies, also mystifies her doctors. She has suffered, loudly, from neuritis, bursitis, ulcers, double pneumonia, smoker's cough and acute gangrenous appendicitis. She also has psychosomatic laryngitis, generally brought on by stormy dealings with a producer. But through it all, the doctors are stumped for any medical rebuttal when she announces flatly: "I'm not built like other people." On the road, she uses three suitcases just for aspirins, Benzedrine, sleeping tablets, vitamins and other pharmaceutical odds & ends...