Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Billy Arnold, Chicago speed driver: the 200-mi. classic at Altoona in a Hartz-Miller Special, beating Deacon Litz in a Duesenberg after a wild duel full of skids, blowouts, breaks on the turns...
...Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods the U. S. team put on speed while their opponents tired; Hopping banged in a 60-yd. drive; Hitchcock got in a long one, but twice Lacey got away from the pack for spectacular scores. ". . . The hardest match I ever played in," said Hitchcock as he dismounted...
People who think better of her remember: 1) That in her trials in England she was far faster than all reasonable estimates of her speed based on her measurements. She beat famed Candida, a boat with five tons less displacement and 800 square feet more sail. 2) She can stand up in a wind and is wonderfully fast in light airs. One day at Newport when the U. S. contestants, holding an elimination trial, lay becalmed, she ghosted through them all as though she had an engine...
...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...
...going to inspect the Mississippi from (navigable) source to delta, from Minneapolis to the Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work as an aid to unemployment. To date 20,000 men have put 70 million cubic yards of dirt into new levees at a cost of $90,000,000-and the project is not one-sixth completed. With Secretary Hurley went Mayor Generals Lytle Brown, Chief of Engineers, and Thomas...