Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joliet, Ill., sheriffs attached for debt the $25,000 automobile bungalow of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle, promoter of the run a little, walk a little, transcontinental marathon...
Mile after mile over rutted alkali, on concrete, and through the brown ooze at the side of macadam, plodded the marathoners of Mr. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle who has offered $25,000 to the runner making the best time from California to New York. All along the route runners dropped out and went home. Three quit at Chandler, Okla., 1,543 miles from the start. They said they didn't believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then...
...Cash and Carry" Pyle is hardly as lacking in sagacity as he has lately been given credit for being. The fact that his widely heralded Bunion Derby has been buried on back pages of the daily press ever since the starting gun is no cause for worry. It is a well-known maxim that the public, like the sea elephant, can be fed a good deal but when fed too much gets nauseated. No one knows this better than the wary Mr. Pyle...
...Missouri, having plodded steadily onward ever since the fourth of March. It is hardly to be supposed that the reading public, long-suffering as it is, could have stomached a daily blurb as to the progress of the caravan. This, too, is as the A B C to Mr. Pyle. But only wait until the final sprint breaks loose somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and the handful of hardy soles left cuts loose. Then will come the deluge, Syndicated throughout the length and breadth of the land will be feature stories on the great race. They will...
...takes the courage of one's convictions to undertake such a project as this one. It takes a not inconsiderable assurance to let slip the goading of the public's interest until the last thousand miles. But gigantic indeed is the mentality of Mr. Pyle, and better than most others does he know not only what the public wants but in what doses it can stand...