Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans lumber tycoon named Harry Palmerton Williams and a barnstorming pilot named James Robert Wedell, organized Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., set out to design planes and run an airline. In a Wedell-Williams Racer Jimmy Wedell presently broke the world's landplane speed record. Meanwhile, Tycoon Williams sank $1,000,000 in the firm, made it the world's biggest privately-owned airplane service, flying several routes near New Orleans...
...Wonder horse of the season is a 7-year-old named Action. When Trainer Jacobs bought him for the customary $1,000 six months ago, Action was not only the cheapest kind of plater but, apparently, superannuated and a cripple. Rejuvenated, and converted from a steeplechaser into a flat racer by his new owner, he won eleven out of his next 13 starts. Last week Action had earned $22,685, was a leader in the handicap division, racing's highest...
...small coterie of yachtsmen who knew the history of ocean racing, one boat was vastly more interesting than any of the others. She was the slim, 53-ft. yawl Dorade, winner of one transatlantic, two Fastnet races, generally regarded on the Atlantic as the finest ocean racer ever built. Brought to the Pacific especially for last week's race, she cost her new owner, James Leary Flood, some...
...passenger, all-metal monoplane with a cruising speed of 185 m.p.h., it outmoded practically all former equipment, became standard on most major U. S. airlines. When a DC2 took second place in the 1934 MacRobertson air race from England to Australia, was beaten only by a special racer, Europe too "went Douglas." By last week, the booming Douglas plant at Santa Monica had delivered not only 81 DC-2's in the U. S. at $80,000 apiece, but 49 in Holland, Java, Batavia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Australia, China, Japan...
...Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg, a viola player, proved himself a practical musician when he thought of the paper dickeys which the Philadelphians now wear instead of uncomfortable stiff shirts. Schima Kaufman values his typewriter next to his fiddle...