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Word: speedups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this type of patient, the doctors reported in last week's A.M.A. Journal, it might have taken nothing but a more severe fright to cause a prolonged heart speedup. And this is the sort of speed-up that can lead to fibrillation (a futile, nonrhythmic quivering) of the lower part of the heart, which means death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frightened to Death | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Speedup. In Phoenix, Ariz., after Jesse F. Roberts, 81, and Katherine Kosti, 89, failed to elope because she couldn't push his wheelchair fast enough to escape officials of their rest home, they tried again with the help of a friend and automobile, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...From March through July, there was no speedup in deliveries of 95 key military items, including some bombers, most tanks and electronics equipment. ¶ Deliveries on many critical goods were behind schedules only 30 days old. ¶ $3.5 billion worth of goods scheduled for delivery in 1952 will not be delivered until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENT: What's Wrong, Charlie? | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...helicopter boom has been military. Only two cities, Chicago and Los Angeles, use helicopters as certified mail carriers. But Igor Sikorsky thinks the speedup in production and research is fast bringing the day when jet-powered helicopters will carry 50 passengers at 150 m.p.h. When that day conies, he expects the helicopter to come of age and be the short-haul bus that the airways have always needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Triumph of the Egg Beater | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

United is not the only one to feel the speedup. Some $300 million is being spent by the military for 600 helicopters (as many as were made in all of World War II), and for research and development of new models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Triumph of the Egg Beater | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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