Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain's famed, red-haired racer and designer, Hubert Scott-Paine, last September demonstrated a 70-foot, triple-engined mosquito which could lug two torpedo tubes, two guns, a crew of 16, at 47 knots (54.1 miles) per hour-well above the best speeds expected from the U. S. boats still abuilding. For eleven mosquitoes and twelve subchasers based on "Ginger Dick" Scott-Paine's designs, the Navy last week let a $5,000,000 contract to the Electric Boat Co., which makes most of the Navy's submarines. When these and the twelve...
Died. Count Enrico Rossi di Montelera, 66, head of the famed Italian wine firm of Martini & Rossi, uncle of speedboat-racer Count Theo Rossi; in Turin...
Died. John Sanford, 88, millionaire carpet manufacturer and horse racer, father of Poloist Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford; in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he had gone to attend the Diamond Jubilee of the Saratoga Racing Association...
...Malcolm Campbell, 54, Britain's famed speedboat racer (141.74 miles per hour on Lake Coniston, England) and holder of the world's automobile speed record when it was 301 m.p.h. (present record: 368.85), who organized a motorcycle militia unit of 162 men last March, reported for service at Britain's War Office on a motorcycle...
...Popular Aviation. Last week, at Cleveland, Colonel Turner (National Guard), winner of the famed Bend'x transcontinental air race (1933), won the Thompson Trophy classic, world's No. 1 round-&-round air race, for the third time. Like a speed-drunk bumblebee, his fat little, short-winged racer whizzed 30 times around a ten-mile course in 63 min., 42.52 sec.-an average speed of 282.536 m.p.h...