Word: lemont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stunt and decidedly not on the program was the shattering accident that obliterated two planes, killed two racing pilots in the first day's events. Zipping around a pylon in specially designed speedsters at nearly 200 m. p. h. Thompson Trophy-Winner Rudy Kling, Lemont, Ill. garage proprietor, and Detroit Barnstormer Frank Haines sideslipped and somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed...
...m.p.h. This was seven miles slower than Michel Detroyat's world record winning time last year, but fast enough to take the $9,000 first-prize money. A wiry garage mechanic and veteran racer who designs his own planes, 29-year-old Rudy Kling lives in Lemont, Ill., had already walked off with the $4,500 first prize in the Greve Trophy race. Grinned he: "I just gunned her for all she could...
...Irish policeman, Edward Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days ago on Chicago's West 38th Street. At 17 he got a job as axman with the Sanitary District then building the Drainage Canal near his home. Later he was toughened in the rough frontier town of Lemont, Ill. where Negro workmen, when killed on the job, were dumped on the rock pile and covered up with canal excavations. By industry and intelligence Kelly became a good practical engineer, a good practical politician with the Sanitary District. His first wife died in 1918. Four years later he married...