Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wife the Princess Hermine, his son, Friedrich Wilhelm, and a party of ten, motoring between The Hague and Haarlem, Holland, discovered in a ditch, badly smashed, the car in which their servants had preceded them. The servants were unhurt. Later in the day on Kager Lake a speed launch carrying the younger members of the party, blew up, badly burned and bruised two, nearly capsized the yacht Olympia on which the senior Hohenzollerns were cruising...
...Speed, a modern goddess, exacts fierce allegiance from those who worship her in motorboats, airplanes, automobiles. Among Speed's most faithful devotees was Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave. Last year in his monster car, the Golden Arrow, at Daytona Beach, Fla. he set a new world automobile record of 231.36 m. p. h. In March he was fined ?5 for driving his private car 45 m. p. h. in Hampstead. People smiled at that story. Segrave, who had said he was through with auto racing, seemed to be keeping his word. But Segrave was continuing...
Died. Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave, 34, British Wartime airman, world's record automobile speedster; when his motorboat, Miss England II, after establishing a new water speed record of 98.76 m. p. h. on Lake Windermere, England, struck a submerged tree branch, overturned...
...refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...
...hours after the stock deal was completed, Vice President Joyce, who is one of the ablest demonstrators in the business, put the XFJ-1 into-and easily brought it out of -a spectacular 12,000-ft. power dive. Navy specifications also demand that the ship maintain a speed greater than 180 m. p. h. at 6,000 ft. altitude...