Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hold their ground as the pattering squealing rats approached. Frightened they retreated into neighboring fields and circumstancially related afterwards that the rats were led by an immense bull-rodent-his eyes (aa^ording to one gifted witness) "rea land glaring." While dogs bayed, horses bolted whinnying, and even motor cars were turned around for flight, the rats scurried on-turning the road into an undulant brown snake. At last the snake reached Epping Forest, slithered in, dissolved into rat-families which fought and clawed each other for the better nesting places. Shocked squirrels looked on, chattering .... Next morning outraged humans...
Eight years ago motor-maker Henry Ford bought a magazine. Mr. Ford, like many another national figure, wanted an organ which would distribute his own distillate of the world-wide torrent of printed talk about him. The sheet was called The Dearborn Independent. It contained articles of opinion, ethical, political, factual: also Mr. Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which...
...Motor Cars. Robert M. Calfee of Cleveland, attorney for the Peerless Motor Car Corp. said: "The Peerless Company under the present proposal does not contemplate the merger of the three companies [Peerless Motor Car Corp., Jordan Motor Car Co. and Continental Motors Corp.], but plans for mutual benefits which would strengthen each in the automobile industry. We have tried to work out a plan which would be beneficial to all three companies." That indicated a grouping of interests. However President R. W. Judson of Continental Motors at once said: "We expect to maintain our position indefinitely as an independent manufacturer...
...them $500,000,000 in additional profits. A U. S. maker of lubricants thus secured $300,000 new business in Berlin, a San Francisco fruit firm $100,000 in Buenos Aires; an electric car manufacturer $1,000,000 in Madrid; a Manhattan novelty house $300,000 in Montreal; a motor car maker $300,000 in Rome...
...Anna, Meem, and Hannah. It is therefore easy to understand why Mr. Diuguid early gave up the fight, embraced his cross, and began actually to look for palindromes. His residence and office addresses were both number 616, his telephone 111 and 333, his lodge membership card 313, and his motor license...