Word: speedboats
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Wood, famed speedboat builder and pilot: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy race at Detroit with Miss America IX at an average speed of 77.1 m. p. h. more than 2 m. p. h. slower than his time last year. His brother George Wood driving Miss America VIII finished ahead of their only challenger, Miss Marion Barbara Carstairs of England, whose Estelle IV and Estelle V she had been tuning up in the U. S. for two months...
About Washington he motors in rakish automobiles behind uniformed chauffeurs. With his crony Senator Reed he makes many a journey down the Potomac for fishing, duck-shooting, in a speedboat they own jointly. He smokes pipes and cigarets, chews tobacco. Cards he plays with hard, businesslike skill. He belongs to six clubs in Denver, four in New York, four in Washington...
...Guardsmen's Story: The speedboat was a known narcotic and liquor runner; stop signals and warning shots were unheeded; the craft was fired on as it fled guiltily away; not until half an hour later was it found, docked, the dying Downey in the cockpit waving his hand feebly. Although the guardsmen found neither drugs nor liquid aboard, they emphasized the fact that Downey was out on bail, charged with smuggling...
Story of Downey's Doctor: The slain man must have been standing when shot, suggesting that the speedboat was stopped when fired upon. He said that Downey had bled to death because the guardsmen had not called for help or administered first aid. While they loitered, city police summoned an ambulance and a fire truck, hoisted the inert 200-lb. Downey out of the launch...
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman defended the shooting officers, taking their word that the speedboat was a "rum runner," pointing out that Downey's companion had plenty of time to throw a cargo of liquor overboard before the boat docked...