Word: crashes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rarely have the experts been so wrong. The only thing that remotely resembled a crash was a brief encounter between Bud Tingelstad's Lola-Ford and the wall on No. 3 turn. The yellow caution light shone for only 13 min. during the 31-hr. race- and 2 min. of that was the fault of a careless official who pulled the switch by mistake. Rookies finished third, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth. Seven top cars used Firestone tires, and the first four were powered by rear-mounted Ford engines. Offy Boss Louis Meyer then announced that his firm...
...stops were crucial. To encourage drivers to carry lighter fuel loads, thereby reducing the risk of crash or fire, officials required all cars to stop at least twice. Sloppy work by Lotus mechanics had hurt Clark's chances in 1963 (he finished second to Parnelli Jones), and Designer Colin Chapman was determined not to let this happen again. Carefully calculating Clark's rate of fuel consumption (3 mi. per gal. of alcohol), he scheduled a stop every 162 mi. He redesigned the Lotus' gas tank to speed up the refueling process. Finally, he hired a crew...
...Tragic Crash. On the ground and in the air, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces also kept up their pressure on the Reds in a grim race against the arrival of the monsoon season. Fighter-bombers swarmed daily over North Viet Nam, blasting bridges, shooting up road and rail traffic, igniting petroleum storage tanks and striking within 55 miles of Hanoi. For the Americans, there were moments of tragedy: a pair of U.S. helicopters collided over Bienhoa airbase-the scene last month of an accidental chain explosion that killed 27 men and wrecked ten bombers. This time, nine Americans died...
...developed such an effective system of hedges in playing the market that when the 1929 crash came a few months later he emerged with a kitty of $35,000 while more seasoned men went under. Simon was solvent in a promising buyer's market, and for $7,000 he bought a small, bankrupt Fullerton orange-juice plant. He renamed it Val Vita Products Inc., switched from bottles to cheaper cans, cut costs, undersold competitors and eventually switched the plant from orange juice to tomatoes. At that time, he was 25. In the next ten years, he raised Val Vita...
...grandfather, formed his own company in 1920 and went on to design World War II's fighting Mosquito and later the Vampire, first jet fighter in the free world to exceed 500 m.p.h., from which he conceived the four-jet Comet airliner, in a brilliant but crash-plagued attempt to capture the passenger market from U.S. planemakers; of a heart attack; in Watford, England...