Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford also took occasion to hint that he, like the Packard Company, was developing a new motor for aviation. He then proceeded to Alexandria, Va., to buy antiques...
...Hoover week-end outing: A motor ride into the Maryland foothills of the Blue Ridge, where President Hoover got lost on a back road; an inspection of a farm patented in two 50-acre tracts by Andrew Hoover, the President's great-great-great-grandfather, in 1746 and 1748, prior to his migration to North Carolina in 1762. William Zepp now owns the site of the ancestral Hoover home...
...feature of the aviation motor of the future is that it will be stopped by nothing but a smash or a pilot...
...large General Motors automobile family have come two recent additions: Viking, Marquette. Viking belongs to the Cadillac-La Salle group, employs the famed V-type eight cylinder motor, sells for fess than ($1,595) the La Salle, just as La Salle sells for less than the Cadillac. Marquette is a Buick offspring, made in the Buick plant, sold at $965 to $1,035-considerably less than the Buick figure. The first Vikings were brought out last month; the first Marquettes went on display June...
Will the U. S. musician soon go where the motor is supposed to have sent the horse? That is the question which President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians was trying to answer at the Federation's convention in Denver this week. An unemployment crisis, now acute, started in 1926 when Warner Bros., as licensee of Western Electric Co., introduced to Manhattan audiences the Vitaphone. In 1927, Fox Film Corp. gave its first public demonstration of Movietone. Today, approximately 2,000 theatres throughout the land have been wired for sound picture showing...