Word: motor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greene was returning to her car. parked on one of the main residence streets of Greensboro, about 7 o'clock Saturday evening. Jan. 15. She entered her car. started her motor and was alarmed when she heard the back door open. She turned and saw a young Negro entering her car, holding a pistol on her. "Take me home." he ordered. The Negro had been drinking. Mrs. Greene offered him her purse and the car if he would just let her out. "That's not what I want," was his reply. With the pistol held to the back...
...escape. She screamed frantically and he grabbed her by the throat and choked her. . . . Evidently the Negro thought her screams had been heard. He turned her loose and jumped out of the car. She got back into the car and locked all four doors. When she started her motor he jumped on the running board of her car and threatened to kill her if she didn't stop. In utter desperation she took a four-foot embankment, almost overturning the car but ridding it of her assailant. ... So much for the facts which you pass over with the words...
...urged that two more battleships be laid down this year-in addition to the two now abuilding at a cost of $70,000,000 each. He also recommended that work be started immediately on two more light cruisers. And to keep abreast of the mile-a-minute torpedo motor boats developed abroad, notably in Italy, he asked for a special $15,000,000 appropriation for experimental construction of "small vessels...
...cost of living has been rising in Mexico so fast that recently the Department of Economy stopped publishing price indices. Mexicans with money have continued, however, to buy the U. S. razor blades, radios and motor cars...
...mayors, aldermen, country squires, judges, surgeons. Nuffield's father was a Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself attended only the village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought the neighboring manor house. According to Viscount Nuffield: "The only true story in the press blurbs about me is that in 1921 I slashed the prices...