Word: racer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schneider Cup seaplane race to be held at Cowes, England, on Sept. 28. But the U. S. Navy will give them a good run. Two of four U. S. entries have made their final tests. The CR-32, tested at Garden City, is a seaplane adaptation of the racer which won the Pulitzer Cup in 1921; the TW-2, tested at the Philadelphia Naval Air Station, is the most powerful single-motored seaplane ever built, carrying 700 horsepower in its Wright engine. According to official observers, these are the fastest seaplanes in the world...
Benito Mussolini: " I was enjoying my usual sport of driving my red racer at a terrific rate when a police-man in Faenza arrested me, not knowing who I was. He took me before a magistrate and I was fined. Said I to the then trembling policeman: 'Always do your duty and fear nothing...