Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alongside the Indianapolis motor speedway is the most secretive aircraft engine plant in the U. S., the Allison Engineering Co. factory, wholly owned by General Motors. There the sleek 1,200-h.p. motors that power the Army's fastest ships are built. Because the Air Corps takes the entire output of the plant, uses them to power speedy Lockheed, Bell and Curtiss pursuit ships and Bell cannon-carrying fighters (see p. 15), every Allison is a Prestone-cooled secret...
...competition between the first and second crews than was evident at any time last year. In fact, it is the second crew's persistence in beating the first boat that has necessitated a continued shifting of men from one boat to another in an attempt to find the fastest combination...
...faster Dartmouth's track was than those in other sports arenas, he invited the great Glenn Cunningham to race over it. No official world record could be hung up, because the International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes only outdoor performances. Cunningham amazed everybody with a 4:04.4 mile, the fastest ever run by man, two seconds under British Sydney Charles Wooderson's world record. Unsure of the track, Cunningham ran his second quarter in a slow 64 seconds; later he figured he could have run the distance safely two seconds faster...
Cunningham's feat encouraged Dartmouth to try again. Last week the middle-distance flash of the season, Negro Portrait Painter & Student John Borican of Columbia University, who week before had jumped the gun to beat Glenn Cunningham in Manhattan in the fastest 1,000 yards ever run, went to Dartmouth to see how fast he could run 800 meters and the half-mile (880 yards). Spaced out to pace him were four Dartmouth runners with handicaps of from 10 to 95 yards. Careful was Borican this time to be off with the gun and not before. He turned...
...racquets court costs only $50,000, has no royal recesses, is a 60-by-30-ft., four-wall court in which its few devotees play the fastest racquet game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The balls, worth about 60?, are made of tightly wrapped strips of cloth wound with twine and covered like a baseball, are slightly smaller than a golf ball, have put players' eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall...