Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth when the boats roared out across the start and for just that instant it looked as though Gar Wood might have a race on his hands. By the time Miss America X reached the second turn on the first seven-mile lap, the possibility had disappeared. Miss Britain III, almost a mile behind, was chugging along smoothly but a little pathetically, at 66 m.p.h. to Miss America's easy 88. Wood throttled his boat down to 85 for the next lap, 82 for the third, a bare 80 for the fourth. Rotund, red-haired Hubert Scott-Paine...
...most exciting of all Harmsworth Cup events. This time, his motors warmed up beforehand, Scott-Paine managed to get across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute m.p.h., Miss Britain III 85.789. But Scott-Paine was only 22.33 seconds behind Gar Wood...
...Harmsworth Cup Hubert Scott-Paine proved last week that he was a better loser than boat-driver. Said he, after the first race: ''The best time of my life . . . the water was beautiful . . . my boat ran up to expectations. . . ." Unlike Kaye Don, whose Miss England III broke down last year in the Harmsworth races, Hubert Scott-Paine has no backer. Like Gar Wood, he builds his own boats, works on them with a staff of six mechanics with whom he shared quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away to sea. Before...
Most authentic shot: Ted Hackett III wearing the white towel-scarf which Hollywood juveniles use off-stage as though it were a uniform...
...morning in January 1931, F. Edson White plunged out of his bathroom window. The directors of Armour & Co. met to pick his successor. After a stormy session they named not Philip D. Armour III, 37, who was first vice president, but Mr. Lee who was 52, had served in nearly every department of the business. Another change followed: T. George Lee became simply T. G. Lee and took up a tough job. He did more than stare down his nose at subordinates and say, as he liked to, "You're all wet." In his first report to stockholders...