Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fooled by the electric lights outside the University this week: Ginger Rogers is definitely not a six day bike racer. Instead she always her for so effectively with Fred Astaire in "The Gay Divorcee." Fred's twinking toes do credit, in this performance, to his international reputation it is rather a shame, however, that the audience cannot be spared the antics of Alice Gracie Allen Brady and Everett Horton which come in between dances...
...record, Manufacturer Vincent Bendix dangled before Col. Turner a $3,500 "consolation prize" if he beat his own record. Last year Col. Turner crossed the U. S. in 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec. behind a 600-h. p. Wasp Sr. This year in his dull-gold Wedell-Williams racer he had a 1,000-h. p. supercharged Hornet which he hoped would carry him from coast to coast in 9 hours or less...
...Shaw comes from New Orleans where he was once a champion bicycle racer. Nearing 60, he has grey hair, a ruddy face, a diamond stickpin in his tie. He is the only bookmaker in the East, as Tom Kearney of St. Louis is the only one in the West, to make a winter book on the Kentucky Derby. He owns a stable of six or seven horses, races them in the name of his lawyer John J. Robinson. His headquarters on Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York...
...November 1902 Barney Oldfield was a brisk young sport who had made a fair reputation as a bicycle racer and just got a job with Henry Ford. When Ford perfected the automobile named 999, which he thought might become the first in history to go a mile a minute, he set about to select a driver for a five-mile race. Barney Oldfield had never driven a car, only ridden in one twice, but he asked for a chance to drive it. After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile...
...elsewhere asserted were purchasing inferior equipment from associated manufacturing companies, he named Eastern Air Transport (owned by North American Aviation, Inc.) and United Air Lines (owned by United Aircraft & Transport Corp.). Next day appeared Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie'') Rickenbacker, famed World War ace and oldtime automobile racer, now vice president of North American Aviation, Inc. When he finished a prepared statement defending the companies, he stood up and with hands in pockets, intoned: ". . . In fairness to our Chief Executive ... he should, in purging this industry of so-called undesirable elements . . . purge...