Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leviathan. Landing in New York, he refused curtly to discuss politics, seemed annoyed when Mayor Harry Mackay of Philadelphia told newsmen that when he lunched with him in Paris the day before the Leviathan sailed, the general had made no plans for returning to the U. S. The speed, the name, the talk that a Republican was needed to attract the Veterans' vote, combined to make some people suspect that General Pershing had been called from retirement to help make the U. S. safe...
Several hours before they were robbed at the Broadmoor Club the ladies and gentlemen of Indianapolis had seen the checkered flag go down at the end of the race. They had seen the cars which, because of their speed, looked lopsided and awkward, whirl round the track. A Duesenberg Special with Jimmy Gleason driving led most of the way with Tony Gullota in a Stutz Special giving him a fight. Going into the last fifty miles the pit called in Gullota, and he stopped on his next runaround. "Gas line clogged!" he shouted, jumping out. Gleason signalled that motor trouble...
Like Henry Ford, Alexander Winton, R. C. Durant, and Eddie Rickenbacker, Louis Chevrolet drove racing cars before he gave his name to an automobile company. A name is also the only connection that Louis Chevrolet has with the Chevrolet Motor Company. The name suggested speed, the company wanted it, so Chevrolet sold...
There followed action of amazing and utterly unprecedented speed. Engineers and accountants for both met the very next week in a Detroit hotel. Before each other they placed statistics and reports on every detail of their respective operations. Great businessmen trust each other in such fashion...
...Chrysler always looks a trifle amazed. He has a home on Long Island -at Great Neck. He owns and uses a yacht and several speed boats. His oriental rugs make one of the best collections in the U. S. When he wants something he gets it without ado. So he has a pipe organ at home. To save himself reading labor, he has a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...