Word: speedsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarcely 24 hours later, during the race, Spangler's sleek Miller speedster bounced over Driver Malcolm Fox's car, went hurtling into the racetrack wall. The impact flung Spangler and his mechanic on their faces against the brick causeway. Crushed beyond recognition, Spangler died in a hospital. His mechanic was killed almost immediately...
...stiff west wind, landed at Burbank, Calif. 12 hr. 22 min. later, more than two hours under the westbound record. The pilot was big-framed Roscoe Turner who wears a swagger uniform of his own design and used to keep a mascot lion. The plane was a Wedell-Williams speedster of the type which made the eastbound record (10 hr. 19 min.) last September...
...Malcolm Campbell, record-holding auto speedster, was chosen chief of a volunteer squad organized at Reigate, England to chase British motor bandits...
Seven miles down the beach Sir Malcolm turned and came back, fighting a wind that pushed his wake of black smoke away from the foam at the water's edge. His average time for the two trips was 253.968 m.p.h., a new record. Pleased, Speedster Campbell held out his arm to show reporters that it was not shaking, said he planned to make another record the next day. Two days later he made records for five kilometers, five miles and ten kilometers...
Three days later, another flyer made a record in the No. 1 event of National Air Race week at Cleveland, the 100-mi. Thompson Trophy Race. Lowell Bayles, onetime coal miner, of Springfield, Mass., flying a Gee-Bee speedster, covered the 100 miles in 25 min. 23:88 sec. His average speed, 236 m.p.h., was 35 m.p.h. better than the late Charles W. ("Speed") Holman's when he won the race a year...