Word: gees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Southern cotton farmers will, hitch "Jude" and "Beck" to a riding "planter" equipped with a 12 in. "middle buster" and a seedbox filled with Maize or Kaffir, "gee" and "haw" aforesaid mules into their accustomed places between the rows, and at a single operation plow up the government's row of cotton and reseed the row with a feed crop...
...left another five miles in her for Russ," said Pilot Jimmy Doolittle last year at the National Air Races just after making a world's landplane record of 294 m.p.h. "Her" referred to the plane, a fat little bumblebee known as Gee Bee 11. "Russ" was famed Pilot Russell Boardman...
...when the 1933 National Air Races were run off at Los Angeles last week "Russ" Boardman and his Gee Bee 11 were not there to make that extra 5 m.p.h. Instead, his plane was a pile of wreckage in Indianapolis and his dead body was being flown back to his Hartford home. Without him, the fastest time flown at Los Angeles was 280 m.p.h.-first time in National Air Race history that one year's speed record was not bettered the next...
...Transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race which raises the curtain. This year's Bendix race, starting from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., was a battle between the builders who divided highest honors last year-Z. D. Granville and Wedell-Williams. Granville of Springfield, Mass, is famed for his fat Gee Bee in which Jimmy Doolittle made a world record of 294 m.p.h. Wedell-Williams is a unique combination consisting of one-eyed, tousle-mopped "Jimmy" Wedell, 33, Texas bartender's son, onetime barnstormer; and rich, suave, happy-go-lucky Harry Palmerton Williams, son of the late Louisiana cypress tycoon Frank...
...kicked his ship up in a gleeful chandelle, a winner. His time: 11 hr. 30 min. Less than a half-hour later Jimmy Wedell himself tore across the finish line, adding second honors to first for his ships. No other planes finished the race. Where were the Gee-Bee's? They had come to grief, and in the same place- Indianapolis. One, piloted by Russell Thaw, 22, modest, handsome son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw, cracked up in landing for fuel. The other cracked up in taking off, mortally injuring its Pilot Russell Boardman. At Los Angeles, Jimmy...