Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...
...known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...