Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover emerge from the White House, step into an open White House motor, roll down the driveway, turning east on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...master of White House protocol. He has a little office off the main foyer, to the right as you enter. Crisply grey of hair, vigorous of demeanor, it is he who inspects all callers, who engineers all receptions, arranges the First Lady's teas, sends the White House motor hither...
...fuselage, tail structure, landing gear and propelling motor the autogiro is a typical airplane. But for wings it has four great vanes fixed on a vertical mast so as to revolve horizontally. They have no motor as have the horizontal propellers of helicopters...
Then there was a general shaking of hands and a few posings with Mr. Edison standing between his cronies, Motor-Man Henry Ford and Tire-Man Harvey Samuel Firestone, his hands affectionately around their shoulders. Mr. Hoover, sauntering across the street to telephone, saw a group of little girls looking sad because, they thought, they were not permitted to dance at Mr. Edison's party. Mr. Hoover opened Mr. Edison's gate and sent the children in. On Mrs. Edison's ample table was a big green-&-yellow pound cake. This the old gentleman sliced with skill...
...propeller motor pulls the autogiro across a flying field the forward motion sets the vanes revolving swiftly, like a great pinwheel. As they turn they create a lifting surface equivalent to a standard plane's wings...