Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holding-up of a Grand Trunk Railway train at 90th street by six bandits who bombed open the mail car and made off with...
Because a crowd standing in the sea-mist along the race-track at Daytona Beach, Fla., yelled "Action," Frank Lockhart, driver, who had decided not to try for a new auto record that day, turned his car around, drove at 225 miles an hour into the measured mile, hit soft sand, somersaulted into the ocean, landed right side up, in the front pages and in the hospital, suffering from shock...
Captain Malcolm Campbell, big-jawed, handsome British automobile racer, drove his Campbell-Napier Blue Bird car one mile with the wind over the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Speed: 214.79 m.p.h. He drove it back a mile against the wind. Speed: 199.66 m.p.h. Thus, he set a new official automobile record of 206.95 m.p.h. The old record had been made a year ago by Major H. O. D. Seagrave, also British, in a Sunbeam car going 203.79 m.p.h...
Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. (De luxe taxicabs; luxurious private motors) lost $783,200. In 1926 the company earned $1,267,684. Reassuring the stockholders, President M. E. Forbes wrote: "Your company carried on the year's operations without any bank loans...
Manuel Alonso (onetime captain of the Spanish Davis Cup team, fourth ranking U. S. tennis player) has accepted a position in the export department of the American Car & Foundry Co., of Manhattan. With the vice president of the company, he sailed last week for South America, will also play tennis in Europe, before assuming desk duties next autumn...