Word: benz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appearances, an easygoing six-footer with no troubles but how to get up in the morning, and he has never had a day of mental sickness in his 38 years. He lives in a Manhattan apartment, and does nothing more violent than drive his Mercedes-Benz at a breakneck clip...
Rickenbacker became a headliner. In five years of trying, he never came in better than tenth in the soo-mile race at Indianapolis, but he set a new world speed record-134 m.p.h.-with a Blitzen-Benz at Daytona Beach. When the U.S. entered World War I he was making $40,000 a year, was one of three top U.S. drivers and a prime celebrity...