Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tibbetts Holds Two-mile Record...
...York, George Kojac, swimmer, broke Johnny Weissmuller's world's record for the hundred yard backstroke. Kojac's time was 1, minute 2 1/5 seconds. In the same meet Walter Spence with a time of 2 minutes 31 seconds beat the world's record for the two hundred yard breast stroke...
...Campbell, big-jawed, handsome British automobile racer, drove his Campbell-Napier Blue Bird car one mile with the wind over the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Speed: 214.79 m.p.h. He drove it back a mile against the wind. Speed: 199.66 m.p.h. Thus, he set a new official automobile record of 206.95 m.p.h. The old record had been made a year ago by Major H. O. D. Seagrave, also British, in a Sunbeam car going 203.79 m.p.h...
...sales progress the statement said with a lofty wobble, "Business conditions in America were somewhat varied, but the foreign business showed steady growth;" 4) "Surgeons' knives, chisels, office-knives and twine-cutters have been added to our line during 1927;" 5) "We regret to record the death during the year of one of our oldest directors, Mr. William A. Gaston. Mr. John Gaston, his son, has been elected a director to succeed...
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (Broadway Limited)-Reported a record year, earnings of $68,160,296. Previous year...