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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Neither will the bondholders. If Erie (as is probable) comes out of the courts by January, she will not only be the heroine of one of the fastest railroad reorganizations in history, but may be the first Class I railroad to emerge from a section 77 reorganization...
Probably the closest race of the evening will be the fifty-yard free style in which the fastest Tech man should easily do 25 seconds flat. Ulen has five sprinters who hover around this mark, anyone of whom might be used tonight. They include Stowell, Ted McNitt, Tom Godfrey, Tom Shrewsbury and Dave Stearns...
...built on contract to Navy specifications, Secretary of the Navy Knox had proudly announced that it had a high speed in excess of 400 m.p.h. Tough, seasoned Rear Admiral Jack Towers, the Navy's veteran flying air chief, had said to newsmen: "I believe this to be the fastest airplane in the U. S. today." One newsman, remembering glowing reports of 450-m.p.h. speeds by other U. S. fighting aircraft, asked how come. The Navy's No. 1 airman stonily repeated: "I believe this to be the fastest airplane in the U. S. today...
...Fastest conveyances of the 1940 Marines will be six Navy "four-piper" destroyers, refitted to crowd 200 men below decks for a run at 30 knots. This fleet will transport a force closely patterned on the German combat teams-1,000-1,200 men with rapid-fire infantry weapons, artillery, tanks, engineer equipment. If trouble starts in the Caribbean, the Marines hope to get there first with the most firepower, have the situation well in hand...
...Their fastest ships were fitted to carry only 440-lb. bombs; the Ju-88 top load was 3,960 lb. (against 10,000 Ib. for a Flying Fortress). But these types could come & go in such numbers that the psychological effect of heavy mass raiding was achieved. Also, they introduced the Göring "breadbasket"-a big bundle of mixed incendiaries and explosives. For bass notes a few larger Nazi planes unloaded devastating 4,000-lb land mines, lowered by parachute to make their descent slow and silent, give no warning. One of their delayed-action bombs damaged...