Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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President Hoover last week took a hand to speed the Tariff Bill to final enactment. The House and Senate conferees thereon were snarled. Major items were still in dispute. The main question was: Which wing of Congress should vote first? Each side, for political reasons, wanted the other to go first, to reserve the advantage of the last word. Chiefly at stake was the export debenture plan, approved by the Senate, disapproved by the President and the House...
...Speed Record. Seasoned diplomats called the 32 hours flat in which the Treaty, was rushed on to paper at London by Chairman Dwight Whitney Morrow of the drafting committee "easily a record...
...Lindbergh deprecated efforts to credit him with breaking the record of Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks which, he pointed out, was a nonstop flight with a heavy fuel load. The Lindberghs held to levels between 14,000 and 15,500 feet. Purpose: To test the theory that airplane speed and efficiency are to be sought above storm areas, in rare atmosphere...
...scope of the questions before the committee was larger than the Williams case. Assistant Secretary Ingalls denied that the U. S. was behind other powers in fast combat planes, though the Navy has been experimenting steadily with aircraft, seeking to develop a combination of endurance and reliability with speed. Lack of funds has been a constant handicap. The Navy's request for $3,000,000 to carry on aircraft development has been cut down to $2,000,000 per year for three successive years. In 1929 the Navy's air fleet was given $32,089,000. This year...
...atomic weight scale (though not highest in specific gravity) is uranium,? a metal which has been virtually impossible to isolate. So-called ''pure" uranium is almost always contaminated with oxides. This contaminated material and salts of the metal are used in the ceramic industry, to produce high-speed steels, in dye manufacture...