Word: faster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dock was an amiable picket. "Service certainly is faster than it used to be, ain't it, chum?" asked the picket...
...with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 ½-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around the top of the world. He soared into the substratosphere, landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York ten hours, 32 minutes and 20 seconds later, faster by a half-hour than any transport plane had ever made the trip before. At an average altitude of 17,000 feet, Howard Hughes and companions found the new oxygen mask comfortable, efficient. Designed by Mayo Clinic Surgeon Richard Lovelace, the mask mixes air with oxygen, eliminates sore throats from...
...reconnaissance cars (mechanized cavalry) spurted 75 and 100 miles ahead, keeping tabs with headquarters by two-way radio. Its horsed cavalry rode to battle and sent its mounts back while it did its fighting. Motorized field artillery (still largely the World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from low-slung trucks. Some of the army's 283 light tanks...
Commentators generally passed this off as a "technical correction," Wall Street's way of saying that prices which had gone ahead faster than Recovery were dropping back to fall in line with the industrial trend. Meanwhile, business indices indicated no serious relapse into Depression. Steel production last week was still about 40% of capacity; carloadings were down 8% from the previous week; automobile output at 13,790 units was the year's lowest. Counterbalancing such statistics, power production climbed to the highest point since January, bank debits rose 10%. Detroit wires hummed with thousands of telegrams ordering laid...
...rewarded. In the final of the Diamond Sculls, dipping his oars 45 times a minute, he streaked through the water as if he had an outboard motor attached to his 26-lb. shell, not only won the coveted race but did it in 8 min. 2 sec.-eight seconds faster than the Henley record set in 1905. Only three Americans before him had ever won the Diamond Sculls : Edward Ten Eyck in 1897, B. Hunting Howell in 1898-99, and Walter Hoover...