Word: schwinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore I. Anderson '51 led a pack of almost 30 pedallers yesterday to win the Wellesley bike race and first prize of a Schwinn bicycle. A strong headwind slowed down all contenders, and Anderson's time of 40 minutes was well above the record of 28 1/2 minutes...
...entrants are after better stuff, however, for there are ten prizes for the winning racers, plus free bike rental tickets for all who finish. A new Schwinn bicycle goes to the top man, while the first, second, and third finishers in each of the three bicycle classes will get a generator set, saddle bag, and carrier, respectively...
...inducement is a Schwinn "New World" bicycle, which will be handed out by Bow Street's Bicycle Exchange to the lucky winner of the race. Just what the victor is supposed to do with the cycle he won the race on is nuclear, but as Hegel says, onward and upward...
...instance, more than half of the Schwinn plant, where American light-weights were first built in quantity, has been converted to the making of secret torpedo parts, and no bicycles have come off the production line since government freezing orders a month...
...Bicycledom's Big Three, who do 60% of the industry's $37,000,000 business: Arnold Schwinn & Co. (Chicago); Homer P. Snyder Manufacturing Co. (Little Falls, N. Y.); Westfield Manufacturing Co. (Westfield, Mass...