Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the live stock exhibitors and carnival people, the trotting racers and speed car drivers make all the Fairs. Nowadays the auto races are three times as popular as the trotters, for the artful speedsters have learned to go through fences without injury, are able to provide a breath-taking accident almost every race. Most hairraising spectacle of all was provided last week by Daredevil "Clem" Sohnn "the bat man," who thrice ascended in an airplane, thrice leaped out in midair, soaring and looping toward earth on his canvas wings (TIME, March...
...banners as an inspiration to the troops. Out of his Quirinal Palace bustled King Vittorio Emanuele III. His $250,000 Fascist-built private train, far more modern and luxurious than that possessed by any of the world's emperors, waited with steam up and all blinds down to speed the Little King northward for maneuvers. Next day His Majesty was at Trento, sham war base of the "Blue" army, and Benito Mussolini arrived later at Bolzano, base...
...glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation. Then the flashing-eyed Maestro turned back, flung his orchestra into the Mozart, whirled them through it at angry top speed...
...factory at Butler, Pa. Copied from the immensely popular British Austin, it was 28 inches shorter than the smallest standard car, came up to a man's chin, cost $445 f. o. b. Butler. It ran 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline, achieved a speed of 50 m. p. h. Two strong men could lift it into any 10-ft. parking space...
Never noted for speed, the Olympic achieved her greatest fame in the War when she safely transported 25,000 troops in the Gallipoli campaign, some 200,000 more to & from the U. S. and Canada, sank one German submarine, repelled seven others, rescued the crew of the sinking H. M. S. Audacious. Converted to oil after the Armistice, she settled down in the transatlantic run, where she again made news by sinking the Nantucket Lightship last year (TIME...