Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After pocketing the $16,000 first-prize money, Speedster Turner, who has been chasing pylons for eleven years, announced that the sun had set on his giddy racing career. "I can't keep stretching my luck," he drawled. With a decade's earnings of $65,000 in prize money and many times that amount 'for testimonials, magazine articles, movie contracts and other perquisites that fall to a U. S. champion, Speedster Turner plans to cash in on his fame by starting a flying school...
...Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern (see p. 13). Winston Churchill's staff sped plans to convoy all passenger ships with British men-o'-war. President Roosevelt discussed giving U. S. ships like protection. >First prize of the British naval forces was the German freighter Olinda, bound for Hamburg with $700,000 worth of Argentine wheat and meat. The cruiser Ajax overhauled her 50 miles north of Montevideo, put her crew on a passing tanker, sent her to the bottom...
...Prize pupil of Denyn is Manhattan's Kamiel Lefevere. Daily he climbs the 335 feet to his crow's-nest in the Riverside Tower, dons his gloves and thumps his way through a bingety-bonging symphony. In winter the freezing wind howls a dismal obbligato through the Gothic masonry around his booth. In summer
...turned out compasses for surface ships and submarines, stabilizers for seagoing craft from yachts to liners, automatic pilots and gyro instruments for aircraft. It also got many a confidential job from Army and Navy, soon branched out into the design and manufacture of complicated fire control devices, antiaircraft searchlights. Prize Sperry antiaircraft product is the Sound Locator-Searchlight, which picks out flying raiders by sound, focuses the lights on them, trains antiaircraft guns so that they "lead" bombing flights as a duck-hunter leads a flying mallard...
...Chicago corporation lawyer, Fearing got his literary start as winner of a $50 poetry prize at the University of Wisconsin, where he once went into bankruptcy and appointed a classmate as receiver. His early career in Manhattan consisted of writing verse and pulp stories, of writing home for money. Married in 1933, and now father of a wise four-year-old son, Fearing has increased both his weight and poetry earnings. (He observes smugly of his latest photograph that it makes him look like an Italian gangster.) In 1936 and again in 1938 he was awarded a $2,000 Guggenheim...