Word: pretzelism
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This year's redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways...
...Harry Robert Dittmar of the du Pont Research Laboratories described "Pontalite," a new plastic known chemically as methyl methacrylate polymer, as clear as optical glass, only half as heavy as common glass, flexible, non-shattering (TIME, Sept. 21). Last week du Pont scientists in Manhattan demonstrated that a pretzel shaped length of Pontalite could conduct light, carry it around bends as a cable carries electricity. A flashlight was held close to one end of the twisted plastic tube. The other end of the tube shone brightly...
First prize in last week's race in addition to a cup donated by young George Vanderbilt, whose Cousin William K. put up the first one, was $20,000. The course was 75 times around the brand new pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway (TIME, Sept. 28). To watch the race, lured by publicity which stressed the possibility that it might produce several fatalities, went a crowd of 50,000, including a list of boxholders, at $27.50 per person, which read like a carefully abridged social register...
...amplifier assembly will serve Roosevelt Raceway, a pretzel-shaped automobile track on the site of Roosevelt Airport No. 1. From the glass-enclosed studio on the grandstand top announcements will spray over an area half a mile square, can be stepped up, if necessary, to carry a mile. Thus will be eliminated the jumbling ordinarily caused by announcements issuing simultaneously from loudspeakers at different points on a field. Total power consumption is 20,000 watts, enough to lift a ton 7 feet every second...
...pretzel bakers...