Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brakes set with a long screech. Three men pointed black steel muzzles from their car at the lone pedestrian. Four bullets passed through Mr. O'Higgins' neck, one lodged in his chest, a sixth entered one ear and penetrated to the base of his brain. The motor car lurched, raced away...
...This ship is said to have covered more than 500,000 miles carrying passengers around the U. S. †The highest altitude ever reached by an airplane was 40,820 feet (almost 7½ miles) by Jean Callizo in a Bleriot-Spad biplane with Lorraine motor...
Frenchmen were ill-pleased with this explanation and stormed in the newspapers that Pilot Drouhin should have carried out his plans with his countrymen. The Farman Motor & Airplane Co. published a bitter letter about its pilot having been "purchased" and sped its preparations to beat Mr. Levine anyway. The Aero Club of France said it would enter the race too, to insure a French victory...
Muffled from toes to topknot, Lieut. Carlton G. Champion of the U. S. Navy last week climbed above Washington, D. C., as far as his Wright Apache seaplane, with a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, would take him. When he came down, his instruments were certified as showing 37,995 feet (7 1/5 miles), nearly a mile higher than the previous world's altitude record for seaplanes, made by Champion Champion...
...highest altitude ever reached by an airplane was 40,820 feet (almost 7½ miles) by Jean Callizo in a Bleriot-Spad biplane with Lorraine motor...