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Fastest? While Pilot Lowell R. Bayles flashed back & forth over the Wayne County Airport course (Detroit) in a special Gee-Bee (Grantville Bros.) racer, an unofficial stopwatch caught his speed at 307 m.p.h. Pilot Bayles is preparing for an official attempt to break the world's landplane record of 278.48 m.p.h..made in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France...
...dived onto the course, crossed the starting line at about 7 mi. per min., 100 ft. above the surface of the water. Five times he flashed back & forth along the straightaway, guiding himself by cloud formations, while electric timing cameras caught the picture that was too fleeting for any stopwatch to record accurately. Spectators watched nervously while Lieut. Stainforth made a landing at 100 m. p. h. in a choppy sea. Said he quietly: "I believe I've broken the record." Then he went to officers' mess...
...made in 1911 on a record crossing from Cherbourg to Manhattan. Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record for the same course was 5 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes. On her second day out the Bremen jauntily crossed the imaginary goal line...
...yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts!" exclaimed the principal rhetorically, seeking to excite manliness in the pupil. Ralph, shamed, said that he would fight. He and another school boy put on great, softly-padded boxing gloves; Principal Rainey stood by with a stopwatch to mark two-minute rounds; teachers acted as referee and umpire; other students watched. The boxing match began. Ralph's opponent whacked him in the ribs and Ralph cried quits before the first round was over. After school he ran home to complain to his parents. They had Principal Rainey arrested...
...Wood, speed-boatman, sped along the St. Clair River off Al-gomac, Mich., in his Baby America III. One hand on the wheel, eyes intent on the stopwatch, he ignored a passing steamboat. A swell capsized Baby America 111. Three young women rescued stunned Gar Wood. Said he: "I know now how Sharkey felt when Dempsey...