Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the State and Treasury Departments. Questions were asked and answered. The advisability of having a U. S. official join the International Bank of Settlements, set up under the Young Plan, was advanced and discussed. Emerging from the White House, the Messrs. Young and Morgan stepped into the first motor that drew up. Halfway down the drive they discovered it was the all-aluminum limousine of Secretary Mellon. Back under the portico stood Mr. Mellon, plunged in perplexity. The Messrs. Morgan & Young drove around to the portico again, got out. Mr. Morgan tapped Mr. Mellon amiably on the shoulder, assured...
...only contestant present. Its pilots took her up. Then appeared the Guggenheim Fund's pilot, the man whom Fund President Harry F. Guggenheim has fostered for two years in order to focus U. S. attention on aviation?Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took Mrs. Lindbergh up for a ride in a Curtiss Falcon...
...entries: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall of Buffalo, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. Foreign entries: De Havilland Co., Handley-Page Ltd., Vickers Ltd., Gloster Aircraft Co. and Cierva Autogiro, all of England; Societa Italiana Ernesto Breda of Milan...
...sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate a U. S. subsidiary. When U. S. efficiency developed the self-starter and brilliant ampere-eating headlights, battery ignition supplanted the magneto in passenger cars. Magneto-maker Bosch therefore turned to trucks, racing cars, motor boats, airplanes, continued old prosperity in new markets...
When, last month, Aviators James Kelly and R. L. Robbins remained aloft over Fort Worth, Tex., for 172 hrs. 32 mins. 1 sec., great was public interest. No motored vehicle, land, sea or air, had ever before run so long without stopping. Last week, however, two Roosevelt stock sedans drove ground and round the Indianapolis motor speedway without stopping, reached, then far passed the airplane record. One stopped after 231 hrs. and 41 min. The other passed the 300 hour mark, kept going. Drivers (who worked in shifts) included Aviators Kelly and Robbins, who thus helped to break on land...