Word: speedway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography, and endless clips from newsreel racing shots give it a sort of juvenile vigor...
...Indianapolis speedway 18 years ago, husky, young William Richards drove his racing car over the side of the track, smashed up, and was carried away with a broken pelvis. "When you're hurt and broke," Richards later related, "you naturally come home." Back he went to his native New England, looking for something less dangerous. Said Richards: "I stumbled into farming...
...famous motor race track at Le Mans, France, sleek-bonneted speedsters screeched around the turns and thundered down the straightways in the most grueling sport-car endurance race on the speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a 1948 British Aston-Martin coupe. Its two-man crew, a couple of middle-aged English amateurs, were there just to prove that "any British family man who drives with care . . . can give these continental chaps a run for their money...
...Connecticut finishes patching up its highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization...
Like the rest of the highway chain, the Massachusetts turnpike would be only a supplement to and not a replacement for the old road network. Using the speedway would be optional; no one traveling from one Massachusetts point to another would be obliged to pay the toll...