Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down in the District Attorney's office at Louisville, waiting for the news. Suddenly he cried: "I must go to my home in Butler county.'" and rushed out of the room, his black coattails dancing behind him, his black "Colonel's" hat flapping with the speed...
...Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short of insulting to a little wooden ship who had made speed records 30 years ago on the Mississippi and who had a pair of gold-tipped elk horns to prove her an undefeated champion. The Betsy Ann's owner, Frederick Way, staked the elk horns that Captain Chris Greene was wrong and told him to put his boat...
...bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military escort, hearing Capt. Emilio Carranza, goodwill flyer, back to his Mexican bride...
Major Mario de Bernardi, hero of the 1926 Schneider Cup race, when Italy wrested the trophy from the U. S., was the first to obey Mussolini's command. Already the holder of the seaplane speed record, he went up last March and averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, beating his own record by more than 20 miles (TIME, April...
...history of the potent Astor tribe, a yacht named Nourmahal (Arabic for "Light of 'My Soul") cut the waters of New York Harbor. The new Nourmahal is the biggest and sleekest of them all-2,000 tons, 264 feet overall, twin-screw Diesel engines developing 3,200 horsepower, speed of 16 knots, all-steel hull. Skipper-owner Vincent Astor, Brother-in-law Prince Obolensky, several friends and crew of 45 had brought her from Kiel, Germany, where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval architect...