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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle that no motor drivers heed speed restrictiions, that some drivers are capable of proceeding safely at greater speed than others, last week the. law passed by the last session of the Michigan State legislature went into effect, permitting travel over Michigan roads outside of city limits at any velocity.- Yet "No person shall drive any vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Michigan Velocity | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...slightest disturbance for thousands of miles had recorded nothing. A tidal wave? No wall of water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pelagic Puzzle | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...particular care for youth. Our children are and characters are prepared for the scenes and duties of a brighter day." With these destinies and preparations in mind, the Youth's Companion has purveyed to the nation's youth dog stories, hero stories, contests, jokes, editorials, educational stories, travel features, selected advertisements in weekly form for exactly 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...yesterday placed upon the road for the first time. All her parts had been previously highly finished and fitted together in Mr. Baldwin's factory. She was taken apart on Tuesday, and removed to the Company's depot, and yesterday morning she was completely together, ready for travel. After the regular [horse-drawn] passenger cars had arrived from Germantown in the afternoon, the tracks being clear, preparation was made for her starting. The placing fire in the furnace and raising steam occupied 20 minutes. The engine (with her tender) moved from the depot in beautiful style, working with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Baldwin Directors | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Airway travel is roughly three times as fast as railways; costs three times as much. There are eight passenger airways now operating. The figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Trains | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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