Word: cued
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against time. Tooling his Austin-Healey sports car (2,100 Ibs., 90-in. wheelbase, 90 h.p.) around an oval track, Designer Donald M. Healey and his crew of drivers kept it going for 30 hours on end to set 60 new international endurance records for Class D (122-183 cu. in. engine-displacement) cars. Record to impress sports-car fans most: 3,000 miles at an average 104.21 m.p.h. Record to impress Sunday drivers most: the first 500 miles (average 127 m.p.h.) at a gas consumption of 22.3 miles per gallon...
Whipping over the flats, kicking up big rooster tails of salt dust, the racers looked more like shuttling ants than cars. A tiny Class "O" (91 cu. in. of cylinder space, the smallest classification) Lakester buzzed along at 111.46 m.p.h., a bigger version got up to 188.08 m.p.h., a sleek streamliner with two V-8 engines churning 600 h.p. reached 255.41 m.p.h. By the time the Nationals were over, U.S. records in 15 classes had been smashed, and the hot-rodders were just getting started...
...LeRoy Neumayer, 23, a Compton. Calif, mechanic, who drove a 300-plus h.p. Class B (305 to 488 cu. in.) streamliner owned by auto supply shop operator Chet Herbert, 25, who used to race hotrods himself until he was stricken with polio. The records: a blazing 233.31 m.p.h. for five miles, 230.53 m.p.h. over a ten-kilometer distance...
...Hooper, 25, a Los Angeles telephone-company lineman, who drove a shiny streamliner with a Class C (up to 300 cu. in.) V-8 engine over the cement-hard flats to six new International records, hitting more than 230 m.p.h. at distances from one kilometer to ten kilometers...
...expansion of its own production, plus gas it will buy, will boost El Paso's daily capacity to 2.2 billion cu. ft., putting it ahead of Tennessee Gas Transmission as the biggest U.S. gas pipeline company...