Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready to start home, Sarabia climbed into his racer at Washington's Boiling Field early one morning last week, headed into the wind, opened his throttle. The ship soared out over the calm, muddy waters of the Potomac...
...mosquitoes, as distinguished from subchasers, must be fast enough and small enough to dart among an enemy fleet, loose torpedoes at murderous range. Benito Mussolini's Navy perfected them, used them to good advantage against Loyalist Spain and even showed the way to British mosquito designers (including famed Racer Hubert Scott-Paine). For the price of a 45,000-ton battleship, the U. S. Navy probably could build 750 mosquitoes, as an experiment plans to order four immediately. On the theory that the U. S. probably will never have to fight a naval war at home, Navy...
...three-wheelers last year, expects to sell 10,000 in 1939. Head of Moto-Skoot is 27-year-old Norman A. Siegal, who used to race Fronty-Fords on the dirt track circuit, decided three years ago that there was more money to be made in slower transportation. Racer Siegal sold his share in a Chicago Loop garage for $1,090 in 1936, hired three workmen, and in a corner of a West Side factory began making Moto-Skoots. By the end of the year he had sold 186 of them at $109 apiece and had taken over the whole...
...obstacles that have previously prevented publication of Tropic of Cancer in the U. S. is still unclear. This strange book is the work of a 47-year-old expatriate who was born in New York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things that are left out of books...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...