Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speed-reasonable and proper. An excess of 20 miles per hour in built-up districts and 35 elsewhere, presumptive evidence of a rate of speed unreasonable or improper." In fact should the wife of the passing motorist drive at this rate the State Police would more than likely require her presence before a judge...
...place of dinginess there is magnificence. Instead of one elevator there are 15; instead of five stories there are 25. A Board of Directors room on the sixth floor is dedicated to the late great Victor Fremont Lawson. Its fine dark panels were taken from his Lake Shore Drive residence, so that the Daily News should have a lasting memory of its onetime chief...
...been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane 13,120 ft. per sec., or about 9,000 m. p. h., making the 240,000-mile trip in some 27 hours...
...first U. S. passenger car with a front-wheel drive...
...definitely in production and soon to be offered to the motoring public. From an engineering standpoint, the distinctive feature of the Ruxton (named for W. V. C. Ruxton, partner of Spencer Trask Co., bankers, and a director in New Era Motor Car Co., Ruxton builders) is the front-wheel drive, previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect...