I read a great book called “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II” about the industrial buildup leading up to and into WWII.
When Henry Kaiser (of Liberty Ship fame) was going for one of his first big contracts in 1921 building roads in California, so when he and a partner took a train to apply for the contract, they found out the train didn’t stop at that town.
So they jumped off the train in their business suits at around 30 mph, and promptly went head over heels, muddying their clothes, and suffering multiple abrasions but breaking no bones. There happened to be a conductor at the place they jumped, and when they limped in, he just shook his head in disapproval at the idiocy of jumping off a train.
They showed up for the interview all muddied and scraped, but got the contract.