Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another new front-wheel-drive car. It is not a miracle, not "marvelous," "sensational," nor "at last the perfect automobile." It is not built for speed, cannot perform the impossible. But it will claim to be a man-made machine with many exclusive advantages. It will be "first production car of its kind."* So said Auburn Automobile Co., in advance notice of its Cord car, named after its President Errett Lobban Cord, to be priced between the Auburn ($995 to $2,095) and the Dusenberg ($8,500 chassis...
Because Paul Bunyan knows no law, it was not surprising that the ceremonies should have been interrupted by one Gunnar Scheftstrom, ex-convict, who held up a Longview merchant, shot him, fled to the forest. Human, he could not escape with Bunyanesque speed. A posse smoked him out in full view of an audience...
...blue cockchafer crawling onto a floating chip of wood, Naval Lieutenant Alfred J. William's Schneider Cup mono-seaplane Mercury floated on the Severn River off Annapolis last week, her nose in a barge. Lieutenant Williams, swiftest U. S. straightaway flyer since he won the 1923 Pulitzer speed trophy at St. Louis by flying 266.6 m. p. h., built the Mercury from his own specifications. The Navy could not afford the building costs. So friends supplied him the needed $175,000. The navy gave him factory facilities...
...Mercury's wing spread is only 18 ft., her length 23 feet. Her motor is a 24-cylinder Packard, generating more than 1,100 h. p. Lieutenant Williams, expert in motors, metals and fabrics operating through high speed's, naturally expects her to win the Schneider Cup at Cowes, England, next month. To do that she must surpass the 318 m. p. h. attained by the Italian Major Mario de Bernardi...
...damaged. But trials were postponed. Next day Lieutenant Williams taxied down the river. She made 110 m. p. h. and started to lift from the water. Another 100 ft. and she would have been in the air. That was a fact upon which he had calculated. But at that speed the twist of the motor forced one wing to feather the water. He figured out a way of overcoming the effect of the torque. The propeller sucked something up from the water and bent itself, an unforseen event. Later, leisurely, safely and, if possible, secretly Lieutenant Williams was to actually...