Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schedules and equipment and operating personnel have not yet gotten down to a satisfactory state. . . . Our Western trip was canceled a few hours before departure because of motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built...
...pace. At 300 miles, he withdrew when his Gilmore Special broke a spring shackle. The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles. At 450 miles, a drizzle made the track slippery and officials waved the yellow flag. This meant that the speed limit was 75 m.p.h. and the drivers were to hold their relative positions. By the time the rain stopped, there were only 20 miles left. Kelly Petillo, who had taken the lead when Mays was forced out and held it ever since, knew then that if his car held together...
...Angeles fruit dealer, Driver Petillo. who used to get tickets for speeding in his father's truck, had invested his last $500 in a cream-colored Gilmore Speedway Special which he patched up for the race. In his first trial he broke the speed record but was disqualified for using too much gasoline. In his second, a broken connecting rod scattered his motor on the track. Before the race, which his wife and nine-year-old son watched him win, he used an electric vibrator to keep his forearm muscles supple. His prizes, when it was over...
...slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...
...Illinois in 1924, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, resigned five years later to become a free-lance pilot and consultant. Best known as a racing pilot, he won first place and $15,000 in the 5,541-mi. All-America Flying Derby of 1930, beating such famed speed merchants as the late Lowell Bayles and Jimmy Wedell...