Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surprisingly from the Cathedral dashed - after the service - Mrs. Parmely Herrick and Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
...Dutch liner Statendam, the German fliers will have Tourist Third Class accommodation of a luxury not found in the First Class of many small and old eight-day boats. Today the fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic, at least until 1930. The largest German motor ship, M. S. St. Louis of the Hamburg-American Line, sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, last week, tips the nautical scales at 16,750 tons...
...small, wiry, grey-haired millionaire drove a leaping spray-plumed power boat up and down Indian Creek in Florida a little more than a week ago at the average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend...
...haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends on his brother's aim, but not all. Ugo has found that by beating his arms he can retard his speed and by shooting out his legs he can increase it. He has learned, too, that a twist of his shoulder will change his course. It is ideal circus stuff...
...subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model T was turned out of the Dearborn factory with increasingly unbelievable speed till it became "a landmark on the national scene as familiar as the eagle on its dollars and the cornfields on its plains." But in 1914 Ford caught the public, that is the journalistic imagination, by his announcement of a $5 minimum daily wage for labor that claimed only...