Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchant Truckmen's Bureau of New York (500 voters), by unanimous vote at a meeting. Reason: as a onetime truckdriver, Nominee Smith has stood against "efforts to tax the motor truck off the highways...
...bodyguards with the fatalistic philosophy that if he was going to be killed he could not avoid it. Last week he quit a card game in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, at 4 A. M. He drove away in a glossy coupe. One half hour later the car was stopped, the motor running. Michael sprawled limply over the wheel. Three bullets were in his head, one in his chest. A shadowy figure walked off across a vacant lot, dropped an automatic pistol...
Foolish the army which fires all its ammunition at the beginning of a battle. Wise the political party which saves up until the eve of election some important announcements, testimonials, recruits. Last week, William Gibbs McAdoo, unreconciled Wilsonian Democrat, commended the prize offered by Motor-maker William Crapo Durant for a plan to enforce Prohibition. Everyone knew, of course, that Mr. McAdoo is as dry as a cactus. The question was: did this minor McAdoodling portend a major McAdoodle, an out-and-out repudiation of the Brown Derby? Perhaps, and perhaps there are other hold-offs, more or less strategically...
Hitherto Andorra has been almost inaccessible, tucked away remotely in the Pyrenees. But the syndicate will build motor roads, a railroad, and import the fripperies of Nice, Biarritz and the Lido...
...companies have made money since the War. Cost of equipment and wages has gone up; motor cars have decoyed passengers and, by crowding thoroughfares, have increased cost of running cars...