Word: auto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavens! If flying is so dangerous that you've got to use a parachute, then don't fly. ... Or get a plane with more than one engine. . . . Stunt flying isn't commercial aviation. . . . Flying is no greater step forward over driving an automobile than driving an auto was to clucking to Old Bess between the shafts of the one-horse shay...
Rickenbacker. Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, War aviator, motor maker, might have said last week: "Before the War I was a champion auto-racer. During the War I was credited with 25 air victories, won the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms and a Legion of Honor membership. After the War I capitalized my fame by organizing the Rickenbacker Motor Co. in Detroit. My concern has just been forced into 'friendly' receivership to conserve assets for creditors. We have orders for 900 cars on hand and sufficient inventory to insure favorable results...
...Frank N. D. Buchman, "Soul Surgeon" and "Anti-Auto-erotist" invited 150 persons to his Manhattan residence, last week, to meet Queen Marie, to whom he was presented on the Leviathan a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 18). The Queen did not appear. Mr. Buchman wrote "Ambassador Hotel, to meet Queen Marie" with a red pencil on 150 blank white cards. Then he and his guests trooped to Her Majesty's apartments in the Hotel Ambassador, presented their cards, were presented to the Queen...
...auto, that emblem of our mechanical age, comes in now and again for its due share of blame for almost any heinous insult to morals that passing fancy chooses to decry. And now its potentialities for destroying the fruitful years of the flower of American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne...
Holders of special auto passes admitting the bearer with auto through Gate 20 on the speedway are warned that they must present their pass for the inspection of the ticket takers if they wish to be admitted through this gate. The ticket takers have been instructed to stop and turn back all automobiles whose occupants fail to present the special auto pass and no exceptions will be made to this rule...