Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thirteen years ago Thomas Fleming Day, deep sea voyager, hung a one-cylinder Evinrude over the side of a twelve-ft. dinghy and chugged 233 nautical miles from New York to Boston to test the reliability of the newly discovered, much-criticized outboard motor. A power cruiser accompanying the dinghy broke down twice, three times. Pioneer Day completed the course. His time: 52 hrs., 47 minutes...
President Albert Russel Erskine of the Studebaker (motor cars) Corp. has a thriving $135,878,000 industry at South Bend, Ind. At Buffalo, N. Y., 450 miles away, President Myron E. Forbes of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. also has a not so thriving industry, with assets of $24,373,000. These facts, plus the reasonable inference that Studebaker might specialize on one grade of car and Pierce-Arrow on another, plus the further fact that President Erskine last week admitted he has been having informal conversations with President Forbes on the subject, indicated that a Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow...
...Nash Motors Co. at Kenosha, Wis., also has been in merger discussions. But doughty President Charles W. Nash has been "sitting tight," saying nothing. Last week he let it be known that behind locked gates and doors his engineers are redesigning the Nash motor and body to improve speed and chic of present models...
...Hupp Motor...
...Eaton at Conneaut, Ohio. His browsing cost him $1,100; cost Mrs. Eaton practically her entire stock. Strict prohibitionist, Collector Ford defied the Volstead law, bought a bottle of Milwaukee beer, vintage 1848. Two days later Ford employes celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Ford Motor Co. by working...