Word: motor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gary, Ind., 77-year-old Arie Meyers was charged with reckless driving on his motor-scooter...
Next Moment, Whoom! To watch* a jet engine spring into life is to feel that power. Dimly visible inside is the turbine, like a small windmill with close-set vanes. When the starting motor whines, the turbine spins. A tainted breeze blows through the exhaust vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that...
This week the pressure was high against Ford Motor Co., which had not boosted wages like General Motors, Chrysler and other motormakers. Ford's 110,000 workers had voted to strike, but few United Auto Workers' officials expected that it would come to that. They expected a raise similar to the 9% increase given last week to Ford's 25,500 white-collar workers...
...comfort or convenience. Terrace Plaza bedrooms can be turned into living rooms by day, have multi-purpose closets with built-in desks and bars. The huge windowless base will be a shopping center and office building, housing such varied tenants as J. C. Penney Co., Lever Bros, and Ford Motor...
...hours of the day & night, until he had mastered it. Young Howard and his playmate, Dudley Sharp (son of Hughes Sr.'s partner), built a wireless set, mostly out of old doorbell parts and other junk. When Howard asked for a motorcycle and was refused, he made a motor out of an automobile self-starter and attached it to his bicycle. It ran. His interest in mechanical things, always much stronger than his interest in people, was growing by seven-league jumps...