In 1947 British driver John Cobb was 1st to travel over 400 MPH on this state's salt beds
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Mickey Thompson tries again to become the fastest driver in history ...  At the time, the world land-speed record was 394 mph, set at Bonneville in 1947 by the British driver John Cobb. On his first run across the flats (403.135 mph),...
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English racing motorist John Cobb drove his Railton to 369.74 mph ...  British racing driver John Cobb in his Railton Special racing-car. He achieved a new speed record (563,58 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats (USA) on ... Driven by A.T. "Goldie" Gardner (the 1st man to exceed 200 mph in a light car). ... Flats, Utah, USA (16 Sep 1947) to become the first person to drive a car at over 400 mph.
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On The Salt Flats Of Bonnevile, Utah (latitude ?41... | Chegg.com  o N) the British auto racer John Cobb in 1947 became the first man t... ... home / study / science / advanced physics / questions and answers / on the salt flats of bonnevile, utah (latitude . ... o N) the British auto racer John Cobb in 1947 became the first man to travel at a speed of 400 mph on land. ... Over 6 million trees planted.
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Land speed record - Wikipedia  The land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land. ... The land speed record (LSR) is standardized as the speed over a course of fixed ... The AIACR became the FIA in 1947. ... Lee into taking the car out for a record attempt in order to monopolize the salt flats ..... constructors  drivers.
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John Cobb - Land Speed Racing History - Greg Wapling  September 16, 1947, Bonneville Salt Flats, USA  John Cobb, Great Britain, Railton ... mph (633.79 km/h), 394.19 mph (634.39 km/h), First one-way over 400mph. ... the track driving the 24 litre Napier Railton at an average speed of 143.44 mph .... Cobb was travelling at 206.89 mph, this is the fastest time ever recorded over...
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jeopardy/1482_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  COLUMBUS, OHIO | The Standard Oil Company opened the U.S.A.'s first drive-in one of these in Columbus around 1913 | a gas station. right: Sal. Wrong:.
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Excerpt from Real Racers - Tripod  During Jeff Gordon's quest for five consecutive NASCAR Winston Cup victories ... have been a record within the so-called Modern Era of big league NASCAR racing. ... won at Bristol in August of 1998, he would have established a new standard ... widely reported that he had tied Petty's record of 13 wins in a single season.
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J! Archive - Show #507, aired 1986-11-18  N. European city with a service to fish out cars that fall into its canals, the Dijks, .... Shielded by a car, in 1941 Alf Letourner hit a speed over 108 mph on this...
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Sign up now for 'Jeopardy' tryouts | Entertainment | nwitimes.com  Feb 28, 2003 ... Clue: Chicagoans enjoy the view from this famous drive named for its waterfront position. (What is Lake Shore Drive?) Clue: In the 1930s, this...
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Blue Flame (Gary Gabelich) - Land Speed Record Facts  On October 23 1970, Gary Gabelich set a new Land Speed Record at Bonneville in his rocket-powered car The Blue Flame. Read key facts about car and driver.
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The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for ...  Oct 16, 2007 ... Roy is attempting to break a legendary cross-country driving record ... particularly if you're driving in the dark at 50 mph over the speed limit. ... And with each setback, Roy risks blowing the secrecy of his quest and putting the brakes on ... Standard police protocol is for a cruiser to lie at the side of the road...
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The Cost of Gas the Year You Were Born - Top Down Auto Blog  Mar 16, 2016 ... August 1944: A party held by American airmen and members of the American ... A Porsche in the Sports Car Class at the Pre National Championship Drag Races at .... Rideout Road (Alabama State Route 255) near Huntsville, Alabama, ... 24th April 1981: Space Shuttle, 'Columbia' rises off Pad 39 a few...
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Ray Harroun - Wikipedia  Ray Harroun (January 12, 1879  January 19, 1968) was an American racecar driver and ... Harroun is best known for winning the first running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race on May 30, 1911. He is known to ... Harroun went on to win at an average speed of 74.602 miles per hour (120.060 km/h). Harroun, who came out...
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National Road - Wikipedia  The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, the 620-mile (1,000 km) Road connected the ... Construction began heading west in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac River. After the Financial Panic of 1837 and the...
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History of Land Speed Racing - Dry Lakes Racers Australia  Land speed record attempts are now over 100 years old. ... Sir Henry also attempted to capture the water speed record in his Miss England II when his boat hit a log ... to average only 394.196 mph (634.196 kph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. ... On October 23, 1970, Gary Gabelich drove the Blue Flame, a unique engine...
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50 years on, sometimes still 'unsafe at any speed' - FIA Foundation  Nov 30, 2015 ... Ralph Nader's 'Unsafe at any speed' focused growing concern about auto safety ... of the American Automobile' on 30th November 1965 sparked political and ... of auto industry failings was the Chevrolet Corvair, an innovative vehicle ... The same model was tested in 2006 by Euro NCAP under the same...
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Borax and the 20-Mule Team in Death Valley - DesertUSA  Harry Spiller, who had come riding down from Nevada, looking for a mineral that men ... Men in search of quick fortunes began drifting into Death Valley after the Civil ... Badwater - the 20-mule teams passed it on the way to Daggett, California ... In early 1883, Coleman built a borax mill on the edge of the marsh where Aaron...
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Random House for High School Teachers | Catalog | On a Farther ...  Late in the summer of 1962, extreme weather visited both ends of the United States. ... launch an angry and concerted effort to discredit Silent Spring and destroy its author. ... In 1951 her book The Sea Around Us made Carson's literary reputation--it ... where she owned a cottage on a rocky bluff overlooking Sheepscot Bay.
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Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Insurance for commuters ...  May 24, 2007 ... In 1896, there were no automobile insurance policies, because there were ... was the second automobile race in the United States; the winner of both the first and ... With the winnings from these two historic races, the Duryea brothers ... It's unlikely that Henry Wells himself was insuredwe know that the first...
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1951-54 Nash-Healey - Road Tests and Classic Cars by Dan Jedlicka  The early 1950s Nash-Healey was the first post-war sports car from a major American ... the 1953 Chevrolet Corvette was America's first genuine post World War II sports car. ... as Ford and General Motors to market with its two-seater by several years. ... Ten more horsepower were added to a larger version of the stout Nash...
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Roswell 50 years and counting UFO Casebook Files  As far as I know, no spaceship crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. ... 1947, Brazel made the 60-mile drive to Roswell and told Chaves County Sheriff ... the base commanding officer, made it clear that something more than pieces of ... of the Roswell incident thus became that a military weather balloon launched to...