Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bluebird, the world's most powerful automobile, and its driver, Capt. Malcolm Campbell, arrived in the U. S. last week. Capt. Campbell had already driven Bluebird 214.7 m. p. h. He wanted to try at Daytona to break the world's record of 231.362 m. p. h. made there by the late Sir Henry Segrave in his Golden Arrow. Capt. Campbell was having a little trouble with the town of Daytona and the American Automobile Association about expenses for electric timing devices and payment of officials at the trials, not because he could not afford...
...KENNON Daytona Beach...
Speed, a modern goddess, exacts fierce allegiance from those who worship her in motorboats, airplanes, automobiles. Among Speed's most faithful devotees was Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave. Last year in his monster car, the Golden Arrow, at Daytona Beach, Fla. he set a new world automobile record of 231.36 m. p. h. In March he was fined ?5 for driving his private car 45 m. p. h. in Hampstead. People smiled at that story. Segrave, who had said he was through with auto racing, seemed to be keeping his word. But Segrave was continuing...
Died. Dr. John Carlton Jones, 74, president-emeritus of University of Missouri, oldtime classicist, philosopher; from cerebral hemorrhage; at Daytona Beach...
...Unrepresented at the New York International Flower Show was John Davison Rockefeller Sr. But in a flower show sponsored by the Halifax Garden Club of Daytona Beach, Fla., near his Ormond Beach winter home, he last week won two blue ribbons for a large basket of deep magenta petunias and a pot of Easter lilies, clapped his withered hands...