Word: oldfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beef & Peanuts. Wilson drives his own Cadillac in from Longmeadow, his rambling fieldstone house on Island Lake, Mich., burning up the highway like a preoccupied Barney Oldfield. Longmeadow is comfortably livable, with garage room for five G.M. cars and wall space for scores of pictures of the Wilson farms, horses, cattle, their six married sons & daughters and ten grandchildren...
Hughes Sr. converted his Peerless into a speedster (see cut), raced it against one owned by Financier Hetty Green's son, and won. He raced against Barney Oldfield, the celebrated professional, and lost. The Hugheses moved to Houston, where Hughes Sr. looked for oil. With his partner, Walter Sharp, he struck oil in the Goose Creek field, but the two-edged "fishtail" bits used in those days broke on subterranean rock. Thereupon Hughes designed a conical bit with 166 cutting edges. That tool is the original source and still the main prop of the Hughes fortune, which now amounts...
Died. Berna Eli ("Barney") Oldfield, 68, daredevil of the dirt track at the dawn of the motor age, first auto racer to drive a mile a minute, whose name gave a U.S. generation a synonym for speed; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Barney Oldfield, oldtime auto racer, had a fight in Hollywood with "Prince" Mike Romanoff (Harry Gerguson), Hollywood restaurateur. Oldfield got a black eye. He said the argument started after Romanoff had tried to crowd him off the road. Romanoff declared that Oldfield had rushed up to him on the street, called him a "phony...
...started making Chevrolets in 1911, lost faith in the car's future, stepped out of Chevrolet Motor Co. three years later and then sold all his holdings. One of the world's great drivers, he entered his first race in 1905 as a substitute, outdrove famous Barney Oldfield, set a record of 68 m.p.h...