Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottom "shingled," to make her ride high in the water instead of cutting through it. When she outdistanced El Lagartito in trial spins, Mr. Reis decided to enter her in the 1931 race. She led for the first two 30-mile heats before breaking a connecting rod. In 1932, she finished a close second to Horace Dodge's Delphine IV, driven by Bill Horn...
...speeding in his father's truck, had invested his last $500 in a cream-colored Gilmore Speedway Special which he patched up for the race. In his first trial he broke the speed record but was disqualified for using too much gasoline. In his second, a broken connecting rod scattered his motor on the track. Before the race, which his wife and nine-year-old son watched him win, he used an electric vibrator to keep his forearm muscles supple. His prizes, when it was over: $20,000 for winning; $2,000 for laps on the way, thousands more...
Item 2-The cover of This Week showing a bird in the middle of presumably a mountain stream, with a fly rod well-bent and reeling in his fish. Ask any fly fisherman if he ever tried to reel in a fish...
Item 3-A cigaret ad with a gal fishing, for the camera, with a fly rod, also reeling in a fish...
Item 4-Another ad in TIME, damfino what it was advertising, a fisherman with a fly rod equipped with a two-handled casting reel and the reel seated above the hand grip...