Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought something slow would about fit me, so I bought a bottle. Naturally I took a drink. It tasted so good, I took another. It was so fine, I called in a friend and we had a couple more. Pretty soon it began to show its speed...
...hrer is the only ruler on the Continent to lift the crushing taxes other European countries impose on motoring. The Fatherland is pushing sales of cars by every means to Germans who know they will be confiscated in wartime and used to speed troops over the strategic highways Herr Hitler is building instead of strategic railways. His reason: cars can detour around a bombed section of road while trains cannot...
...Among the first ten U. S. women to earn transport licenses, they have for years been front-line fighters in aviation's ''battle of the sexes." A fuzzy-haired blonde of 30, Mrs. Thaden has been flying since 1927, has held the women's speed, altitude and endurance records, is the mother of a 6-year-old son. She and Flyer Noyes both work regularly as air-marking pilots for the Department of Commerce (TIME, Aug. 24). Short, brunette Mrs. Noyes is better known as the only pilot ever to fly John D. Rockefeller...
...seen a parachute jumper bashed to death in front of the stands, watched the 34 private planes in the annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
...instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though no foreign flyer hadwever i won the Thompson Trophy before. This thought did not bother the burly Frenchman. Without the slightest trouble, he drummed into the lead...