Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death was only seconds away. Riding nose to tail pipe, the tight-packed cars skittered around two turns and scrapped all the way down the backstretch. "Nobody was giving anybody anything," said Driver Shorty Templeman. On the very next turn, Ed Elisian's John Zink Special slammed into the pole car and spun out of control; 13 other cars piled up behind him in the worst traffic mess in Brickyard history. "I just went into the turn too hard," said Elisian later. "The brakes locked on me, and I went onto the grass. There wasn't much...
There was, as a matter of fact, just this much more: Indiana's young (29), clean-jawed Pat O'Connor rode right up the stern of another racer, could not keep his Sumar Special from flipping over. No stranger to the Brickyard, Irish Pat O'Connor had racked up some 2,000 miles there in four other 500s. But experience could not save him. He suffered a fractured skull, died in flaming wreckage. The first lap was not yet finished and the 42nd Indy 500 had scored the race's 48th fatality. Elisian, whose harebrained driving...
Driving the same Belond Special that won for Sam Hanks last year, Bryan tramped on his foot throttle and tried to pull away. At the halfway mark he was still being tailed by Veterans Tony Bettenhausen and Johnny Boyd. Coming up fast was Rookie Driver George Amick. Each of the cars was powered by a four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. The drivers' skills and the speed of their pit crews meant more than any mechanical difference...
Though President Eisenhower gave the industry special permission to cooperate during the Suez shutdown, the Justice Department charged that oilmen had gone far beyond that. In early January 1957, prices of Texas crude oil rose generally by 35? per bbl.; shortly thereafter, gasoline, home-heating oil and other refined products went up in most markets by about 1? per gal. Said the Justice Department: "For the purpose and with the intent of raising, fixing and stabilizing prices of crude oil and automotive gasoline, each defendant . . . would increase its posted price of crude oil . . . and each defendant engaged in the marketing...
...brief respite from a quarter century of Puritan austerity, the Class of '33 embarks today on a four-day 25th Reunion embellished with straw hats, class ties, plastic badges, and special parking privileges, courtesy of the Cambridge Police Department...