Word: motor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plausible of a welter of rumors-including one, later proved false, that he had been seen boarding a steamer for Europe-was advanced by a Norwalk, Conn, house painter who claimed he had heard a plane over Long Island Sound same day Whitfield took flight. The plane's motor sputtered, said he, then died, and he thought it might have dropped into the Sound. By last week's end private searchers had given up. Meantime, while Andrew Whitfield 's father & mother remained in Virginia, Brother John scoffed at hints of suicide, told the press he thought...
...other spot landing, the pilot tries to land at the bull's-eye of a large circle. He may approach in any manner he pleases but must throttle his engine back when he reaches the height of 500 feet. In both landings, the motor must idle after the pilot has reached the designated altitude in order that the conditions simulate a dead-stick landing...
...Traffic Research Bureau has no close financial connections with the University. Its support comes almost entirely from the American Automobile Manufacturers' Association and the individual motor car companies, which pay the operational expenses and contribute the fellowships for study under the Bureau. At the most, Harvard furnishes a few facilities. Hence, the Bureau has no restraining obligations here, is perfectly free to leave whenever it so desires. Any debt which it owes to Harvard for publicity has been amply repaid in kind...
...Robert Ley, a 15 1/2-knot motor ship of 25,000 tons, is about the size of the two biggest ships (Manhattan and Washington) of the U. S. merchant marine. Besides a swimming pool with "voluptuous murals" and 5,000 sq. yd. of deck space, it has outside staterooms for all its 1,500 passengers. The Robert Ley is the second of no less than 20 25,000-ton ships planned for Kraft durch Fretide-no small project since there are now only about two dozen ships in the world which are as big. If built they will give Germany...
Most piquant and persistent of business rumors during recent months has been the one that Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley would shortly resign to head a rejuvenated Fierce-Arrow Motor Corp. Basis for this talk, which Jim Farley never denied, was a Fierce-Arrow reorganization plan proposed last August and approved by stockholders in September, under which the company would raise $10,700,000 through sale of new stock and enter the medium-priced automotive field under the guidance of "a person of national importance." Last week it looked as though Jim Farley had been saved for the Cabinet...