Word: stutz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stutz) Lincoln...
...Governor Smith's defeat. Like many great makers of money, he discovered, late in life, an interest in pictures. His first wife, who died in 1917, was made a Countess of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope; in 1920 his son, Allan Ryan, cornered the stock of Stutz Motor Car Co., and was expelled from the Stock Exchange for doing so. Thomas Fortune Ryan tried several times to retire from business but until last week he called frequently at the office he maintained in Manhattan, at the Guaranty Trust Co. It was said of him that he "could...
...Stutz...
...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 was forcing him to stop for gas. A big red car with "39" painted...
Well in the lead now, the French car slackened its pace slightly. Twelve hours later, the exhausted mechanics pronounced the task hopeless; the Hispano was flagged down to receive the news that the Stutz had been forced to withdraw. The foreign invader had traveled 1,357½ miles in 17 hours, 21 minutes, maintaining an average speed of 70.14 miles per hour. The old stock car record, made last October at Atlantic City by a Studebaker, of 1,814.96 miles in 24 hours, with an average of 75.6 miles per hour, remained unbroken...