Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racing. Less sleek and decorative than the vehicles in which the late Wallace Reid transported himself as the hero of similar sagas about motor racing, they are more exciting and dangerous. There are three races in the course of the picture, two serious accidents, innumerable skids, two gasoline tank fires. All this, photographed brilliantly and from every angle, is enough to make The Crowd Roars a dreadful and a stimulating spectacle. It is almost enough to make you forget that the story, written by Howard Hawks (in collaboration with Seton I. Miller), is slight and spurious as is usually...
...safety device wholly eliminates the chance of accident. Last week within a few hours of each other two famed trains were in mishaps. At Weverton, Md. the Baltimore & Ohio's eastbound Capitol Limited, going 40 m.p.h., jumped the track when a wheel of the tank-tender broke out of line. None was injured. At Princeton Junction, N. J. the Pennsylvania's westbound Red Arrow sloughed across three tracks at 45 m. p. h. when the locomotive's water scoop failed to rise properly from the track trough. Injured...
...this year. Although the crews have not been on the river consistently more than two weeks this year as compared with the three week's experience in shells enjoyed by the crews last year at this time. Whiteside has had plenty of time to watch the rowing in the tank in order to judge the best oarsmen on the squad...
...different from old models, will be long, low and wide. They will be streamlined, with slanting windshields, V-shaped radiators with rounded crowns the same color as the bodies. They will have freewheeling, larger wheels, heavier tires, bigger hubcaps. The ignition key will be on the steering post, gasoline tank in the rear...
...Though last week's display models were made in the U. S., cars for sale will be built at the Ford plant at Dagenham, along with milk floats, fire engines, tractors, tappers, scrapers, diggers, lorries. London auto critics had only one objection to the new Ford: the petrol tank atop the engine. Neither Sir Herbert Austin nor Sir William Richard Morris had anything to say. For Henry Ford, King George had no knighthood...