Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Streaking over California's Mojave Desert at an altitude of 40,000 ft. one day last week, burly Air Force Captain Walter Wayne Irwin, 34, opened his throttle, steadied his F-104A single-jet Lockheed Starfighter on course and handily broke the world's official aerial speed record by nearly 200 m.p.h.' Previous official record, flown last December over the same measured course by an Air Force F-104A McDonnell Voodoo: 1,207.6 m.p.h. Official time for Irwin's operational Starfighter,* figured by averaging one pass with the wind and one against it: 1,404.19 m.p.h...
...willing to serve as Under Secretary of Beaux-Arts. In the Assembly, Pflimlin demanded emergency powers -the right to hold suspects without trial, to make searches at any hour, to deport citizens from troubled areas, to impose full censorship and to close movies, theaters and cafes. Working with unprecedented speed, the Deputies gave him the powers he wanted within the day -and did so by one of the biggest majorities (462 to 112) accorded any French Premier since World War II. Pflimlin brought in as Minister of the Interior 65-year-old Socialist Jules Moch, who won fame...
...Forces. The human body can stand travel at any rate of speed provided that it is constant. What hurts is a too-abrupt change in speed or direction. Standard of measurement for such changes is the g (from gravity), which is equal to the acceleration produced by the earth's pull at sea level. Unprotected and in normal sitting position, the body cannot stand more than about 3½ g for more than about 15 seconds. Semisupine, even without a pressure suit, it can stand 6 g for 4½ minutes, as much as 12 g for only...
...minutes later Vag arrived at the foot of the mountain where the contestants for the Fourth Annual Belknap Hill Climb were gathered. Vag downshifted to decrease speed and increase noise as he drove past the M.G.'s, the Austin Healey's, and the Porsches. He finally parked his car between an Aceca Bristol and a Veloce. After a cursory glance at his surroundings, Vag strode over to a group of drivers. They were listening to a young man in a blue coverall who was standing atop a blue Porsche...
...week also turned down by 19,800. ¶Retail sales rose in April to $16.1 billion, 2% better than March. Most important, durable goods registered a gain for the first time this year, while housing, slowed by a cold winter and a wet spring, was picking up speed rapidly. April housing jumped to an annual rate of 950,000, v. a level of 880,000 in March, and is expected to do even better in May. ¶ Inventories declined still another $700 million in March, bringing closer the time when many industries must start reordering. As steel stocks slipped down...