Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rosemeyer drives a sleek, silver Auto Union with the motor mounted in the rear, amuses grease-stained U. S. racers by strolling about the track in dressy shorts and green Tyrolean hat. In off hours he has been taught to fly by his wife, Elly Beinhorn, Germany's most famed aviatrix...
...sympathy strike in Lansing had gone on all day with the United Auto Workers and sympathizers augmented by some 5,000 members from nearby Flint and Pontiac. But while downtown was literally mad, East Lansing, three miles distant, was minding its own affairs, college students were attending classes as usual. At 4:10 p. m. an unauthorized "flying squadron" made up of the prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
George Pepperdine, a restless $15-a- week bookkeeper in a Kansas City (Kans.) garage, entered the auto supply business in 1909 with nothing to his name but $5 worth of stamps and a printing bill. Tirelessly circularizing small-town bankers and car owners, George Pepperdine sold that year $12,000 worth of tops, tires, gadgets. Five years later he opened a branch of his thriving Western Auto Supply Co. in Denver. When rich Mr. Pepperdine sold his controlling interest and retired to California, he became so twitchy that he started a new Western Auto Supply Co. on the Pacific Coast...
Sirs: Where did you get the word "jalopy" for junked auto ? I cannot find it in any dictionary-Oxford, Merriam, slang...