Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Naval aeronautics last week went on trial before a Senate Committee. Sponsor of the investigation was Maryland's Senator Millard Evelyn Tydings, bony-faced War veteran, whose Committee was authorized to inquire into "the conditions surrounding the type, speed and comparativity of fast pursuit and bombing planes with those of other nations and all other matters pertaining thereto." In the background of the investigation there loomed up the old Navy controversy of battleship v. plane...
...Schneider cup races in England. The plane. Mercury II, was 880 Ib. overweight, would not fly. He wanted to take it to England anyway, crack it up at the starting line and thus conceal the naval aircraft factory's "bungling construction." For six years the Navy had hampered his speed experiments. When in February he was ordered to sea duty, he resigned from the service in the belief that only in private aviation could he develop a plane fast enough to regain international speed honors...
What many a through motorist, delayed by local traffic, has long wished for, lay behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...
...Thing: young Ireland feels that her new prosperity depends on top speed performance by Mr. Ford's immense new Irish factories (TIME, Oct. 28). As everyone knows, the Motor Man (Episcopalian) is the world's greatest exporter of motor thews and sinews to the growing young Russian Industrial Giant...
...period of the deciding game with Ottawa, scored three times in three minutes, won at 5 to 2. Howie Morenz of the Canadiens, the fastest skater in hockey, his round, heavy shoulders hunched toward his stick, his strong legs pumping in characteristic gait resembling a shuffle, but matchless in speed, broke a tie and won his team's series by curling a high shot past Gardner, frenzied Chicago goalie, who had stopped everything up to that time. Against the Rangers in the second round of the playoffs, Desrivieres, rookie of the Canadiens, got his stick on the puck...