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...revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
...rainy season was at hand on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. The cowling was bolted into place on top of him; a truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered the measured mile. Cobb, a London fur-broker, had spent over $30,000 to try to break his own 1939 land-speed record (369.7 m.p.h...
...eggs 25%. Many a grain broker privately ordered his customers to post higher margins. But the grain-exchange officials took no heed of Mehl. Board of Trade President J. O. McClintock said firmly: "A margin fixed at an extreme limit is likely to throw . . . the market out of gear...
Moving into high gear one day after its opening meeting of the year, the Student Council and President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 yesterday launched a full-scale investigation into Freshman affairs with the establishment of a powerful new committee...
...late O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter), father of the high-gear, machine-tooled short-short story, was finally honored with a tangible memorial in the home of his youth, but he had to share it with a salve manufacturer. The memorial: a reproduction, in the Greensboro, N.C., Historical Museum, of the drugstore where the writer (and the salve man) once worked...