Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer White House. General John Joseph Pershing called on the way home from visiting his father-in-law., Senator Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, and reported the condition of U. S. cemeteries abroad, discussed disarmament. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gallagher, Cleveland friends of the Coolidges, dropped in on a motor tour and the President told them he was sorry the flooded, muddy condition of "the location I use" in Grace Coolidge Creek prevented him from returning their turkey of last Thanksgiving with a trout dinner. Other-visitors included officials of the Post Office Department and Department of the Treasury, to report...
...After inspecting Battle Mountain Sanitarium, national soldiers' home near Hot Springs, S. Dak., the President said: "I want to see that old man alone." He left his wife and son in their motor, re-entered the sanitarium and sat down beside a stooped figure with cascading white hair and beard. The two talked for 20 minutes. Once the older man said: "Let's see. I saw him last in 1864." The old man was Hezron G. Day, 85, Civil War veteran, father of Admiral George Calvin Day, U. S. N., who commands the present Atlantic cruiser squadron...
...officials crowded around. The plane was wheeled to the runway. Mr. Clarke leaned out, called: "As long as I can't see the start of this race I'll be at the other end to see the finish!" Into the plane jumped Mr. Babb, hatless in business clothes. The motor hummed; the plane took off. A Dole official told the crowd Mr. Clarke had not qualified, had not a chance to win the prize if he made the flight...
...freight left Hartford, Conn., last week and arrived in Havana, Cuba. It carried Royal typewriters. The carrier was a Ford-Stout all-metal, three-motor airplane. Included in the equipment was a device to drop freight by parachute. It dropped these typewriters from a height of 700 feet. Unbruised, they worked perfectly...
Looks. Is the complexion of the motor highway to change radically or only in slight degree? That is the question which is everywhere asked when Henry Ford announces a new line of cars. Never since familiar Ford Model T first appeared (in 1907) has the change of complexion been radical. This time it seemed that a radical change of complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring...