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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend and automobile racer Henry O'Neil Dehane Segrave in a leaky boat at 61 m. p. h. With his record hung up, Gar Wood stepped...
Speed. Motor boats grow yearly more speedy. Most of the runabouts and outboard models will now do around 30 m. p. h. Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...
...sports costume by Chanel, they will pay $200 or $300 for a replica of the same costume in a Manhattan shop. For Paris dressmakers have found no way to prevent copying of their creations. Madame Charlotte made but 1,000 of the 1,000,000 copies of La Garçonne. As simplicity is the vogue in Paris, U. S. copyists may turn out French designs for $50 or $75. Even now the buyers are speeding homeward with dearly purchased models, ready to put them in the hands of expert imitators, preparing for the nation's great fall shopping...
...easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived but was not admitted. The show space was already overcrowded. She was removed to the show rooms of her owner Gar Wood, famed racer and manufacturer. The Greenwich Folly of George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer Co., winner last August of the Gold Cup, greatest of all motor boat speed prizes, was absent. But there were numerous speedy Chris-Craft, numerous Dodge Water Cars, sometimes raised to specially built speed efficiency...
...Gar Wood, speed-boatman, sped along the St. Clair River off Al-gomac, Mich., in his Baby America III. One hand on the wheel, eyes intent on the stopwatch, he ignored a passing steamboat. A swell capsized Baby America 111. Three young women rescued stunned Gar Wood. Said he: "I know now how Sharkey felt when Dempsey...