After gaining a foothold in the Austin music scene, he decamped to Nashville, hoping to land a record deal.
When some old friends from Sioux City couldn't land a record deal, Waitt offered to finance a CD.
It turns out that the full performance of the rocket is not needed to break the land speed record.
Bluebird is on display at the Welsh Museum of Speed at Pendine while the attempt on the lawnmower land speed record is made.
Project Runningblade's mower is driven by Don Wales, whose grandfather Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record at seven-mile long Pendine Sands in 1924.
It's also the place where Andy Green, a British fighter pilot, broke the land speed record in 1997 by driving a jet-powered car through the sound barrier to 763 mph.
The Jetta Hybrid Land Speed Record project shows both the sporty nature of our Hybrid offering and the technical excellence of our engineers in Wolfsburg and in the Test Center California.
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Just down the road too, in Sparks, was a warehouse containing the strange, finned, tubular car in which he hoped to break the land speed record, travelling as close as he could to 800 miles an hour.
Later the car was modified to accommodate a Simpson Special land-speed record engine (no. 1522), a motor that had won ten records at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.
Reno informs us that, as a young girl, she loved the celebrated land-speed-record holder, Flip Farmer.
And, most important to conservationists, land is being protected in record amounts.
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Drilling services giant Halliburton released its U.S. quarterly earnings report this week, highlighting record revenue generation due to expanded land-based drilling operations and international activities.
We know that carbon dioxide has been a much larger fraction of the earth's atmosphere than it is today, and the geological record shows that life flourished on land and in the oceans during those times.
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China's rising sea levels hit a record high in 2012 due to global warming and land subsidence, threatening millions of coastal residents, reports China Daily.
This record has been obtained and continuously updated by sensors onboard a series of land-imaging satellites that began with the launch of Landsat 1 in 1972.
Not every deal is a "land grab" - much depends on local context, the investor's track-record, the terms of the lease, and whether these reflect the free, prior and informed consent of local landholders.
Never before in modern American history has a man we really know so little about and whose political record provides few clues about how he might actually govern attained the highest office in the land.
The Scottish government has defended its record on wind farm applications in the face of criticism that it was failing to protect wild land areas.
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