Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred medium-sized motor cars are less ponderous than its weight of 260 tons. Taller than a five story house (55 feet), the single shaft of stone is too large to be carried by any railway car in Italy. Yet last week Signer Benito Mussolini commanded that the monolith be moved to Rome, there to become "The Mussolini Monument." How to obey...
...year ago airplanes brushed through the clouds above the wild Atlantic, in this last summer tiny boats, smaller than those which first traversed it, have been the most spectacular traffickers upon its wastes. The smallest of all these is the canoe, equipped with oar-locks, sails and a motor, in which Franz Romer started out last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge...
...said Dr. Eckener, "remain in the air for hours in perfect safety, even if every motor should give out, which is most unlikely. We can get at every motor to repair it. We have even taken apart an entire motor and reassembled it while in flight...
After giving a year of successful service to the members of the Harvard Flying Club and their guests, the Club Travel Air plane has been turned in for a new and later model equipped with a Curtiss OXX 6 motor...
Exported Autos. The American Automobile last week published its survey of the U. S. automotive industry's exports for the first half of this year. Motor cars and trucks exported numbered 260,072 (44,837 more than in the first half of 1927); were worth $184,687,815. Tires: 1,344,000 (225,072 fewer than last year). Parts: $55,318,127 worth ($1,152,428 gain). Best car customer was Australia; best truck customer, Argentina...