Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roar other than the one made by their motors, that of the crowd to salute the winner. Louis Meyer of Huntington Park, Calif., who in 1933 became, with Tommy Milton, the only two-time winner of the Indianapolis race, had won it for the third time. His average speed (109.069 m.p.h.) was a new record for the event.. Driver Meyer waved three bruised fingers to salute the crowd, collected vouchers for $20,000 first prize and $1,900 in lap prizes, wiped the grease off his face, changed his clothes, left the track in a coupe...
...seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead of Ted Horn of Los Angeles...
Reader Collier's information is interesting, even if not entirely accurate. Most George Washington classmates (1916) re-call J. Edgar Hoover's nickname as "Speedy," "Speed" or "Spee." Another District of Columbia and George Washington University boy who made good is U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson...
...Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot of the seaplane N-C 4 which in 1919 made the first transatlantic flight; of a heart attack; in San Diego...
...Harvard Narragansett season has opened on Plympton Street. Crowds roar and shout as favored entries speed down the home stretch, carrying the hopes and silver of many an enthusiastic bystander. The quiet of a Sunday evening gives way to the carnival spirit of a gaming crowd (Mass. Racing Commission please note). Not yet equipped with the full paraphernalia of the track, a shrewd Good Humor man would do well to seek such a lucrative location before the monopolistic possibilities of concessions are exploited...