Word: faster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the Maritime Commission called for bids on twelve new fast cargo ships, some of which American Export will presumably buy. The specifications are for single screw steel ships: length, 435 ft.; breadth, 63 ft.; draft, 25¼ ft.; speed 15½ knots (about 17½ m.p.h. 6 m.p.h. faster than average U. S. freighters); range, 13,000 miles; to cost around $1,700,000 each and to be completed within 14 months. All must be swiftly convertible into useful war vessels...
Schmeling continued to fight in his cool, planned style, moving faster and landing oftener in each successive round. In the fifth, Schmeling was behind on points and finally let loose his right. It caught Thomas clean on the chin, and Schmeling blinked. Thomas did not go down. He sailed in, hitting Schmeling with left hooks that purpled his face and body. Schmeling stepped his pace up a notch...
...Pins and Needles in shape. Staged in a remodeled Manhattan cinema house, with an amateur cast and two grand pianos for orchestra, its rollicking satire made critics agree that I. L. G. W. U. members were class-conscious but not grim about it, that their show was funnier and faster than many a Broadway revue...
First major industry to suffer from the present depression was railroading, which last summer discovered that its operating costs were climbing much faster than its revenues although the latter were well ahead of last year (TIME, Sept. 13). The subsequent decline in other industries brought worse news, for railroad revenue began to fall on most fronts. Car-loadings are now some 20% under last year at the same season. With 28% of U. S. trackage already in the courts, the railroads were quick to clamor for Government help in the form of a general 15% rise in railroad freight rates...
Fast though the busy workers shovelled away the dirt, the gas escaped faster. Frost action complicated matters still further...