Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company still makes windshields, but mostly for replacements since the newer one-piece windshield is now generally used. He is at present working on non-shatterable glass for doors and windshields. As is true of many a man in the motor industry, Inventor Banker was once a famed bicycle racer. Henry Ford never did like Bankers...
...Nearby stands Bernice of White Isle, a near perfect bloodhound and Togo, Alas kan sled dog. Togo is the only non-champion admitted. He won fame sledging serum with Leonhard Seppala to diphtheria infected Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). Mrs. Kaare Nansen, the onetime Mrs. Edward P. Ricker, dog racer of Poland Springs, Me. gave Togo to the museum...
Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
...Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting son Daniel, later used as a houseboat by Spencer Borden, only recently refitted for sea service...
Meekly Sculptor Hardiman made another model. Abundantly supplied with photographs from amateur critics, he gave the Field Marshal a slouching seat and set him on a nervous, long-necked racer. This second model was passed by the Office of Works, last week drew a second storm of protest from British horsemen...