Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days the "folded arms" strikes had spread to Fiat (automobiles), Citroen (automobiles), Farman (airplanes), De-woitine (airplanes) Rosengart (automobiles), Licorne (automobiles), Salmson (automobiles, airplane engines), Goodrich (tires), Alsthom (electrical equipment), Panhard (automobiles) and the Paris building trades workers...
There is the same fiat austerity of modeling in the face, the same crisp brilliance in hair and the suggestion of light on the pupils...
...afternoon run, with much of the morning's ice changed to corn snow, the members of the Crimson team came in within two seconds of one another, a very unusual occurrence. Emerson was first with a time of 3 minutes, 5 seconds fiat, Shaw arrived in second place with 3 minutes, 5.2 seconds, and Carter was third, getting home in 3 minutes, 7 seconds...
...truly royal train; a small royal palace traveling at a mile a minute" is the proud description of King Vittorio Emanuele's train by its stiff-necked, arrogantly bourgeois builder, Tycoon Giovanni Agnelli, Senator of the Realm and President of FIAT (Italian Automotive Works of Turin). Inconspicuous on each coach is the symbol RIC ("workable over all European railway lines"). This means three separate braking systems, two distinct electric lighting systems and alarms so ingeniously concealed and blended with the palace decor that a stranger would be quite unable to discover how to stop the palace-train...
...difficulties which confront its hero when he tries to tell outsiders about the predicament he is in. A young Canadian named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), he finds himself one evening, as the result of nothing more daring than a visit to a London music hall, entertaining in his fiat a girl who tells him that she is a counter-espionage agent protecting England from an international ring which is selling the secrets of the Air Ministry and that she has just committed a murder. Hannay considers this nonsense until the next morning, when he finds his guest dying with...