Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been discontinued, the Thompson Trophy, held in connection with the National Air Races, assumes importance as the world's foremost air speed contest. The event was the climax of last fortnight's meet at Cleveland. Eight swift planes started, among them Doolittle in the chunky, barrel-like Gee-Bee racer with an 800-h. p. Wasp in its fat nose, and the pilot's cockpit far back amid the fanlike tail surfaces. Another starter was minuscule "Jimmy" Haizlip who broke the transcontinental record last fortnight. Before the end of the race Doolittle, his eyes watery with hay fever, had lapped...
...before his takeoff, Mechanic Bochkon telephoned collect from Barre to a New York newsman for a weather report and to ask "what them other squareheads are doing?" The "other squareheads" had taken off from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named...
Died. Frederick Samuel Duesenberg, 55, automobile manufacturer, racer; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Johnstown...
Engaged. Loretta Turnbull, 19, outboard motor boat racer of Los Angeles; and Richard Blythe, amateur flyer, personal representative of Colonel Lindbergh at the time of his European flight...
...goggles and deprived, by a windmask, of the cigar stump which was already as much one of its features as a nose, looked like a death's head. Driver Barney Oldfield had left school to be waiter in an insane asylum, left the asylum to be a bicycle racer, left his bicycle to work in the Ford auto factory. Last week Barney Oldfield, now 53, was at Daytona Beach, Fla., as was Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird, a $115,000 twelve-cylinder, 1,400-h.p. Napier-motored racing car in which he hoped to beat the world...