Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor was whirled. Once it spat and died, again it sputtered and coughed, finally it roared action. A man picked up the butt of von Huenefeld's discarded cigar for a souvenir...
...race then was Lady Mary's. Zooming went she over the dark green heart of Africa, over the crystal blue of the longest freshwater lake in the world (Tanganyika) . And then, name of a dog, while she spiraled down to land at Tabora (10,000 blackamoors gaping) her motor missed. Suddenly the motor died cold. The Moth crashed to earth, a twisted wreck. She was only slightly injured. Fever loomed...
More than a hundred motor-boatmen in little boats with outboard motors started to race in wind and sleet from Albany to New York for a first prize of $500 to go to the boatman who covers the most points in four races. Kirk Ames of New York won the first race...
...Morris who, as head of Morris Motors, bears the relation to British motor manufacture of Henry Ford to the U. S., last week found himself obliged to dispose of $4,750,000. Last year the company earned $6,500,000. After taxes and preferred dividends the $4,750,000 remained for the common stockholders. Since Mr. Morris is the company's sole common stockholder, he might have assigned himself all the sum. Instead, he ordered it applied to company surplus...
...least six good reasons exist for private capital to build toll bridges: 1) motor travelers are willing to pay tolls to shorten their journeys; 2) local authorities derive a certain, if trifling, indirect income; 3) government authorities are often too lethargic to construct needed bridges; 4) engineering friends of private capitalists, rather than the engineering friends of officeholders get the construction jobs and profits; 5) sale of bridge bonds and stocks provides work and profits for banking houses; 6) bridge bonds and stocks are investment opportunities for people with idle money...