Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ralph Budd, Defense Advisory Commissioner in charge of transportation, went A. T. Wood, president of Lake Carriers Association; Edward Vincent Rodgers, president of American Trucking Association; Frederick C. Homer, assistant to the chairman of General Motors; Arthur Middleton Hill, president of National Association of Motor Bus Operators and Atlantic Greyhound Corp...
...Mississippi River racer, Higgins went after the record of the legendary river steamer Robert E. Lee for the 1,200-mile upriver run from New Orleans to St. Louis. In 1929 he broke it in his spoon-bow motorboat, And How III. Time: 87 hrs. In 1931, in Greyhound (a modified And How III), he whittled it to 72 hrs. 4 min. Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon bow a whale-belly stern. The Navy, always alert for new designs, helped him experiment, started...