Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waldemar Kaempffert's science colyum in the New York Times it was revealed that the late Sir Henry Segrave, racer of motorboats and automobiles, solved the problem of buoyancy in his boats by lining the hull with thousands of ping-pong balls...
Bayles v. the Clock. Official timing cameras of the Federation of Aeronautique Internationale clicked at Wayne County Airport, Mich, while Pilot Lowell Bayles flew his fat little Gee-Bee racer four times around official pylons 1.8 mi. apart. When Pilot Bayles landed his average speed had apparently smashed the world's landplane record of 278.4 m. p. h., held by France. On one lap he was checked at 295.86. Final calculations, however, gave him an average of only 281.9, less than the 4.97 margin allowed him to receive official credit. Moreover, no record would have been allowed because...
Fastest? While Pilot Lowell R. Bayles flashed back & forth over the Wayne County Airport course (Detroit) in a special Gee-Bee (Grantville Bros.) racer, an unofficial stopwatch caught his speed at 307 m.p.h. Pilot Bayles is preparing for an official attempt to break the world's landplane record of 278.48 m.p.h..made in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France...
...Motor-Racer Capt. Malcolm Campbell thought it would be fun to look for buried treasure. First he thought he would try the Salvage Islands, found out just in time he had been forestalled. Then he decided on Cocos Island.* Capt. Campbell says there are three separate treasures on the island, estimates their combined value at ?12,000,000, calls them "the richest and most authentic pirates' treasures in the world...
...into the early morning darkness over Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airdrome one day last week shot "Jimmy" Doolittle's Laird racer, the one in which he crossed the U. S. in 11 hr. 16 min. 10 sec. last month (TIME, Sept. 14). In the cockpit Major Doolittle had a copy of that morning's Ottawa Citizen. That afternoon he handed the paper to a newsman on Mexico City's Valbuena Airfield, 12 hr. 36 min. after leaving Ottawa. He gave himself up to a reception committee, spurned proffered tea and asked for three fingers of brandy, declared...