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...Watched and cheered while Vice President Dawes presented the Daytona Beach trophy to Capt. Malcolm Campbell, motor racing Briton...
Governor Fuller said: "If it has done you as much good to listen as it has me to deliver this, you're all feeling elegant right now." He was full of vim, having just returned from a Packard motor trip through Florida with golf at the stops. He was bustling about Massachusetts at a great rate, telling how the colleges should be run† getting after his Attorney-General for what looked like scalawaggery,** and booming other men so generously that in a speech to a large bevy of clubwomen he slipped into an absurdity. "I would like...
...Royal & Presidential party swept up from the station and through the Brandenburg Gate, a crowd of some 30,000 saw with amazement that the last motor in the procession was bright red and driven by Friedrick Wilhelm, onetime German Crown Prince & Crown Prince of Prussia. Uninvited, he had merrily slipped up behind. Prudent, he soon turned down a side street amid scattered cheers and more booes...
...Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
Because aeronautical engineers are at the very front of motor development, Lester J. Hendershot, young Pittsburgh civil engineer working for the U. S. Topographical Survey, secretly presented his new type electric motor to such men at Pittsburgh, Detroit and Manhattan last week. Without any connection to any apparent power store, the machine ran for hours. The energy came, said the inventor, from the electricity accumulated by the earth in its daily and yearly rotations. Quite probable, acknowledged physicists, but not more of that planetary charge can be continuously tapped to operate more than a toy motor. Frankly skeptical, they awaited...