Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week Sir Douglas announced the personnel (27 men) of this expedition, which sails next month on the Discovery, oldtime ship of the late Explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The Mawson purpose: to spend two years mapping Antarctica. †Navigazione General Italiana. These motor-ships, each propelled by two diesel motors, can run six months without stopping. ** In the Mexican fiasco over General Pancho Villa...
...question of continuing Stanley Baldwin's "safeguarding of industry" tariff, the Labor government received the surprising majority of 120 votes, more than even the most optimistic Laborites expected. London business circles felt sure that the duties on motor cars, pianos, machinery?all typical U. S. exports?will be canceled at the passing of next year's budget...
Whatever his aims, he remains a good soldier. In a dusty grey motor he rushed, last week, from arsenal to arsenal through Persia, counting cartridges. At Teheran he beamed as shiny new bombing planes, just purchased from Berlin, landed on the flying field. Wasting no time, he despatched the bombers to blow up the sheep and the goats, the oxen and asses of the rebellious Arabs in an effort to cut off their chief food source. He inspected a fleet of armored cars for hill-fighting...
While other people were doing such things, Aviators Loren W. Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air sedan called the Angeleno, and soared, soared, soared over Southern California. When they had been up 175 hours, one hour longer than the last World's record (TIME, July 15), a great crowd gathered at the Culver City airport set up such a hullabaloo that "talkie" directors on nearby lots...
Endurance Attempts. At Los Angeles, Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison in a Cessna (TIME, July 8) had their motor fail, landed with a crash after 42 hr. 5 min. in the air. Another Los Angeles plane, the Buhl Angeleno, last week started up for the endurance record. Flyers were Loren W. Mendell, R. B. Reinhart...