Word: bike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Entered in the two-mile race, Dodds did everything a runner shouldn't do: he started out pumping like a six-day bike rider, zigzagged all over the track like a halfback, and finally-a full lap behind on the gun lap and staggering like a punch-drunk fighter-tripped Don Lash just a few yards from the tape...
There has been some talk about a victory bike to be made from scrap materials, with as few superfluous gadgets is possible, but nothing definite has been settled in this matter. If this new type of machine is manufactured, it will probably lack fenders, stands, and chrome finish...
...time the government has some steel to spare, the bike industry will...
Before OPM last week, bike makers argued that the 40 lb. of steel in a bicycle could in many situations replace a 2,900-lb. Chevrolet. The British use bicycles mostly to go to work. Most U.S. bicycles (around 10,000,000) are owned for sport by boys and girls, but not all. As evidence of their usefulness, the manufacturers cited Philadelphia's bike-riding newsboys, who sold $103,000 worth of defense stamps one week, $130,000 worth in another...
...Besse '42, Art Driscoll '45, Sean Murphy '44, and Al Fullerton '44, sprinted to a photo finish. Werner Maas '43 was forced to drop out of the race after about two miles, having lost several spokes from his front wheel on the wing-nut of Bosse's bike...