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Word: flottant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer has francs to fling. For some years now the flashy little maker of Citroën cars, with a lack of originality he once would have scorned, has been leasing the new features pioneered by Walter P. Chrysler. Chrysler "floating power" became in France "le moteur flottant" of Citroën. It helped, but not enough. This year, slipping perilously near to bankruptcy, M. Citroën struck out with a new car of his own which has made Paris sit up and stare. It has front wheel drive, "knee action" on all four wheels and lines phenomenally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Saving Citro | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...Last week the 8-h. p. British Ford was not pre-selective, had a gear lever of conventional U. S. type. From France came Andre Citroen's latest, a car with floating power"-by permission of Walter P. Chrysler who has leased the French rights of his moteur flottant to "The Ford of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pre-Selector | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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