Word: roller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...regatta has had many bizarre endings in its 37 years, but last week's topped them all. Hotsy Totsy III, built for the 1937 race, was considered so worthless her owner had bought her for $1,000 only three weeks ago. Champion Allen, owner of a Long Island roller-skating rink, had never entered a race before, was so green he did not know what the checkered flag meant. But by steadily cruising around at 45 m.p.h.-in the last heat he was moving so slowly officials flagged him off the course-Greenhorn Allen, like the tortoise in Aesop...
...Governor John E. Miles exclaimed: "I sometimes think this man Raymond Huff uses elastic dollars, he makes them go so far." This summer Superintendent Huff began to build a stadium, which, when it is finished next month, will have a football field, cinder track, lighted tennis courts, roller and ice skating rinks, barbecue pits. He also started construction of a new cafeteria, put his students to work last fortnight making dishes for it from Clayton clay...
...Timken Roller Bearing is now the No. 1 electric-furnace operator, but it uses a large part of its steel output in its own plants...
...press, Bascom Timmons turned up at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was also a delegate from Texas, with one-twelfth vote of his own, absent John Nance Garner's proxy. One afternoon a group of fellow newsmen, bored with the New Deal's lumbering steam roller, hired an open car of ancient vintage, trimmed with brass, equipped with a raucous foghorn, and toured the hotel district bearing placards: "Timmons for Vice President...
Last week, 142,000 fans-having amused themselves outside the grounds at tent shows, Ferris wheels, roller-skating rinks and shooting galleries-poured through the Speedway gates. They arrived on foot, in cars, trucks and trailers. Few knew or cared that the best qualifying time for this year's race was 127 m.p.h., that only one of the 33 competing cars was powered with more than eight cylinders, that this year's mechanical emphasis was on new methods of supercharging, that six foreign cars were entered, and, for the first time in a decade, two foreign drivers: South...