Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOUR SWEPT-WING JET STRATOTANKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEMPT TO SET JET-AGE SPEED RECORDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TOOK OFF JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT...
...Strategic Air Force veteran and one of the most experienced of all KC-135 pilots, got his take-off clearance from Westover Tower at 12:30. Broustas acknowleged the tower, moved his four throttles up to full power, released his brakes and began to roll. The plane picked up speed but not quickly; it was carrying thousands of pounds of fuel. It passed its V-1 and V-2 marks-the last point for chopping throttles, and the point of commitment to take-off-and broke ground exactly at the predetermined spot...
...vingt-quatre heures, the great 24-hour endurance test at Le Mans, France last week had everything that 250,000 paying spectators could have asked of an auto race: spectacular speed right from the start, heart-stopping suspense, and, almost inevitably, sudden death on the treacherous track...
Through all the downpour, Hill and Gendebein and their Ferrari managed to stay out of trouble, and slowly they worked into the lead. At the end, none of the competition was really close. Hill finished the race after covering 2,549 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 106.21 m.p.h. He had beaten the second-place Aston Martin by 100 miles. If the worst weather and the worst track conditions in the memory of Le Mans veterans had kept him from a speed record, Phil Hill had still set a record with which he was more than satisfied...
Friend in Speed. In Miami, Frank Hull and Murray Singer put up $2,500 bond for Charlie Roberts on his promise that he had "the money at home in a hole in the floor," accompanied Charlie home and stood by while he pried up several floor boards, disappeared through the hole and ran away...