Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lights burned late in the frame and concrete-block garages along the infield of the sprawling, 515-acre racing track on the northwest outskirts of Indianapolis. Mechanics toiled over the expensive (cost: $20,000 and up), low-slung cars, built specifically with the big brick-paved track in mind. This week 33 of the world's fastest racers will roar 500 miles around the Brick Yard in quest of fame and some $300,000 in prize money...
...winning car at Indianapolis is the one that combines top speed with a minimum time in the pits-a good pit crew can refuel and change all four tires in 30 seconds. For the past two years the winner has been the bright yellow, 380-h.p. Belond Special, designed, built and owned by Mechanic George Salih of Whittier, Calif. Salih took the standard four-cylinder Offenhauser engine used in most Indianapolis cars, installed it on its side at an 18° angle for cooler running and lower center of gravity. The idea was so successful that...
...Memorial Day, Bryan and the Belond could expect a stiff fight from the car with the fastest qualifying time: the Racing Associates Special, complete with cockpit built to the specifications of Driver Johnny Thomson, after an anthropologist took his measurements to determine the most comfortable driving position for a man of Thomson's size (5 ft. 7 in., 150 lbs.). Thomson's average qualifying speed: a hefty 145.908 m.p.h. Another advantage: he will start from the No. i pole position...
...editorial, "are insipid, lifeless, deadly dull and difficult to read." Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth paper, erupted in a rash of sensational feature stories, e.g., "What Role Does Love Play in Marriage?" Pravda's publishing house gave birth to a new daily, Sovetskaya Rossia, which in three years has built a circulation of 1,500,000 by offering jaded citizens a giddy diet of local news, lively pictures, display ads and reader polls...
...second longest concrete arch (a 690-ft. span) to bridge the Esla River at Zamora, Spain. His gull-wing roof over Las Corts soccer stadium in Barcelona is one of the world's most breathtaking architectural sights. Even in the small churches and shrines that Torroja has built for Pyrenees villages, he has exploited shell structure to produce new forms whose strength comes from shape and whose beauty springs from mathematical curves possible only in modern reinforced concrete. Torroja is fond of walking his institute visitors under the sickle-shaped ribs of the pergola that spring from the outside...