Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question: "What good are air races?" The latest Gee-Bee is of radical design, a fat bumblebee of a plane with small wings and an enormous tail. Wags dubbed it "the flying silo." Last week Zantford Granville began construction of a barrel-shaped transport ship patterned directly after the racer. Its wing is larger but its fuselage is barrel-shaped, its tail big, its nose fat to hold a 700-h.p. Cyclone. With pilot & seven passengers it is supposed to cruise 197 m.p.h., hit a top speed of 230, land under...
Hard to Handle (Warner). In his recent expositions of modern careers of danger & daring, James Cagney has been a gangster, gambler, taxidriver, auto-racer and sneak-thief, all with perfect Brooklyn-Irish sangfroid. In Hard to Handle he is a flip, beady-eyed, irresponsible publicist, as unlike Ivy Lee, to whom he compares himself, as possible. When he promotes a marathon dance he falls in love with one of the contestants (Mary Brian) and has to run away from her mother (Ruth Donnelly) when his partner steals the prize money. Disaster, as usual, encourages Cagney. He promotes a treasure hunt...
...white craft named Imp. In 1929 he won the Gold Challenge Cup; in 1930 made a record for the fastest 30-mi. heat in that class (61.5 m.p.h.). Also in 1930 he was awarded the medal of the Regatta Circuit Riders' Club for having done most for motorboating. Racer Hoyt has a reputation among his opponents as a daring driver, a "grand sport." His mechanic says: "There are only two positions on his throttle: tight closed and wide open...
Born in Rockford, Minn., Van Gates was an automobile salesman and occasional racer in San Francisco in 1910, when he saw the French Aeronaut Louis Paulhan thrilling crowds at Tanforan Track. He decided there was money to be made in exhibition flying. For $2,000 he picked up a flimsy biplane built by a Kansas City doctor, took a Swiss aviator as partner. The Swiss looked once, briefly, at the biplane and vanished. Rather than see the machine rot on its wheels, Gates started the engine one day, mounted the rickety seat, started taxiing about the field just...
Later, however, more seasoned women pilots flew an admirable race in a driving storm for the Aerol Trophy. Rain & darkness blinded them so they could not see the flags on the pylons signalling them down. Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell, in the cockpit of pugnacious "Benny" Howard's little racer Ike, won at 185 m.p.h. Next day Mrs. Mae Haizlip, wife of "Jimmy" Haizlip, in her husband's ship, flashed past the timing cameras at 255 m.p.h., 45 m.p.h. faster than the women's record, just as fast as Doolittle in the Thompson race...