Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French intelligence solved the problem by an announcement that a "midnight storm" had washed away a section of the one comfortable motor road connecting the French resorts with San Remo. Next day French artisans were busy repairing the stretch of road with such vigor that for long it will be impassible. Italians wrathfully and truthfully declared that there had been no storm. High play at San Remo fell, at least temporarily...
James Ward Packard was 30 years old when he began to make automobiles. Before that he had experimented with electrical devices and organized two companies to manufacture them. In 1893, having studied the motor plans of Daimler and Benz and the body-building methods of Levasseur, he had drawn the plans for the first Packard; the financial depression of the next few years prevented him from manufacturing cars for the several years afterward. It was not until 1899 that the first Packard rolled out upon the roads, a high, sloping car, followed by children and stared at by scornful farmers...
...uphill." Last week a 20-foot whaleback lifeboat with four Dutchmen in it sailed out of the Thames into the Channel. One of the Dutchmen is 70 years old. He, Jacob Schuttvaer, designer of the lifeboat, wants to prove it is unsinkable. His boat has neither wireless nor auxiliary motor. With him are Captain Smith, Helmsman Gelissen, First Officer Robert Kruithof. He expects to get to New York in a month, uphill...
Conrad Roy Keys, president of the Ctirtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., reported earnings of $794,148 (previous year: $413,317); explained that the increase was "due to larger volume of business and more especially to continuity of operations resulting in better utilization of manufacturing facilities...
dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...