Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buses. Out of Washington, D. C., rolled two spanking motor buses, red, white and blue, laden with loudspeakers and literature. One had the same destination as the eastbound Hoover Special-West Branch, Iowa, the Hoover birthplace. The other rolled for Providence, R. I., to campaign with Curtis. This new ballyhoo was called "garage-storming...
...were changed, we'd have to shut down our plants. Everything in the United States is keyed up to a new pace which started with Prohibition. The speed at which we run our motor cars, operate our intricate machinery, and generally live would be impossible with liquor. No, there is no chance even of modification...
...real father" of General Motors, President William Crapo Durant, of the Durant Motor Co., made a gangplank speech about national affairs before sailing for Europe last week. About Prohibition, he said...
...supper with the priest and later, in a gasoline launch, out across the close darkness of the lake. It was a warm, calm evening; everyone was apparently in the best of humor; no accident occurred to mar their merriment until when they had proceeded for about a mile the motor began to backfire. Father Dubuc leaned down to see what was wrong. There was a sharp detonation and a sheet of flame from the exploding gasoline tank...
...letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed for the swim. At Gatun Locks Swimmer Halliburton paid 36? (correct charge...