Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford was subject to the Code's provisions, could be fined $500 per day for its violation, could be licensed out of business. But he would get no Blue Eagle unless he filed a "certificate of compliance." Warned General Johnson: "I think maybe the American people will crack down on Mr. Ford when the Blue Eagle is on other cars and he does not have one." The State Governments of Pennsylvania, Maine and Tennessee did "crack down," said they would buy no more Ford cars until their maker signed up with...
Speed Record. Lee Gehlbach of Detroit took up his Wasp-engined Wedell- Williams Special for a try at Major James H. Doolittle's land plane speed record of 294.38 m.p.h., failed to crack it. Another Wedell-Williams behaved differently when its designer, one-eyed James R. Wedell, took it up. Over a three-kilometer course he definitely broke the land plane record at 305.33 m.p.h...
Heavy rains undermined the Pennsylvania Railroad's bridge across the Anacostia River into Washington. Before dawn along came the Crescent Limited, crack Southern Railway train from New York to New Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...
...excitable horse, brilliant but undependable. He threw his jockey, Sonny Workman, who rode him last week, in his first start. He fell in the Pimlico Futurity. The next season, after being a winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, he ran badly in the Preakness, developed a blind quarter crack (hidden bruise) that made it look as though he might never run again. Last year, heavier (1,080 lb.), more composed, he lived up to his promise by winning ten of his 14 starts, setting a world's record for a circular mile race of 1:34⅔. This...
...year, while William Reynolds' bay filly Mary Reynolds was winning several preliminary races on the Grand Circuit, a publicity agent was high-pressuring newspaper interest in trotting racing. Last week 30,000 trotting fans crowded Goshen's green valley, its dusty Main Street. Eastern newspapers sent their crack sports writers to cover it. A trotting horse is trained not to break into a gallop. Pulling the little low-hung sulky with the driver perched nearly under his tail, he must not stretch out to pull himself along, must drive his legs rhythmically down and back. He is rarely...