Paula Murphy, Once ‘the Fastest Woman on Wheels,’ Dies at 95
She proved that women could gain fame as a speed demons on land by setting records on the Bonneville Salt Flats and on the nation’s racetracks.
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Paula Murphy, Once ‘the Fastest Woman on Wheels,’ Dies at 95
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