Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Please note by the inclosed clipping [June1] that the wife of the President was riding in New England, in Rhode Island to be explicit, at the rate of from 55 to 65 miles an hour. According to the 1929 Automobile Green Book, Rhode Island speed law is as follows...
...Speed-reasonable and proper. An excess of 20 miles per hour in built-up districts and 35 elsewhere, presumptive evidence of a rate of speed unreasonable or improper." In fact should the wife of the passing motorist drive at this rate the State Police would more than likely require her presence before a judge...
...Michigan. Last week the U. S. gathered in Detroit and along its rum- reeking river some 400 Dry agents. In the face of this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went...
Devotees of Just So Stories are familiar with Yellow-Dog Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian...
Died. Ray Keech, 28, of Philadelphia, onetime truck driver, onetime (April, 1928) holder of the world's auto speed record (207.55 m. p. h.), winner of the Indianapolis race on Memorial Day (TIME, June 10); at Altoona, Pa., Speedway, in a four-car smash-up while traveling at a speed...