Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bridge was played, innumerable cigarets were smoked. One motor began spurting oil. Sergeant Roy Hooe pussyfooted along the slim runway leading to the spewing machine, did some windy tinkering. Capt. Ira Eaker, at the joy stick, wore a haggard grin. He headed back toward Los Angeles. The day was sunny, the fog had drifted away. The fourth day, the eighty-seventh hour passed. Had the five flown directly eastward the same distance from their starting point they would have been winging over Europe...
...Ford and G. M. C. invitations looked to speed up Russian industry. The country has 150,000,000 population, but only 22,000 motor vehicles, 40,000 tractors. Complementary to this intention the Soviet has just placed a $250,000 order for truck engines and transmissions with Hercules Motor Corp. of Canton, Ohio, and Brown-Lipe-Chapin Co. (G. M. C. subsidiary) of Syracuse, N. Y. Russians will assemble the machinery in Russian-made 3½-ton trucks and busses...
Alcohol. U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co.. controlled by Air Reduction Co. is the largest producer and distributor of industrial alcohol. Its products are used for fertilizers, motor fuel, lacquers, anti-freeze compounds. Last week, its dominant position was approached by Rossville Commercial Alcohol Corp., newly organized to acquire Orange Grove Refining Co., Seaboard Chemical Co., Industrial Chemical Mfg. Co., Rossville Co., Federal Products...
...most instructive and entertaining films in the group is a "Brief History of Transportation", which deals with steam, motor, and air, transport. The film ends with striking scenes of the loading and taking off of the big air-liners that fly between London and Paris...
Orders for two new coaching launches have been placed with the Greenport Construction Company of Greenport, Long, Island, according to an announcement made last night by E. J. Brown '96, University crew coach. After having been exhibited at the New York Motor Boat Show, they will arrive in Cambridge in the early part of March...