Word: motorcars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
...Wires carried the oscillations to an antenna two centimetres (less than one inch) long. The antenna was fixed at the focal points of two curved reflectors which faced each other. One, facing in the direction messages were to be sent, was ten feet in diameter. The other suggested a motorcar headlight. The two reflectors concentrated the waves which the antenna emitted into a sharply defined beam. Two of these devices were set up, about 100 yd. apart, on each side of the Channel. The large reflector of the one functioning as a transmitter on one shore pointed at the large...
...Charles is not about to join Sir Oswald he at least parroted New Party doctrines in a letter to the press. For example Sir Oswald has said: "The Government runs to and fro like a chicken in front of a motorcar, cackling economy slogans to their opponents. The way to meet this nation's difficulties is not by negatives of panic but by positives of action...
That slender, long-nosed spitfire, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet-Eye") Butler, had made another speech. In Philadelphia he had told a club meeting this story: A friend of his recently roared through the Italian countryside with Mussolini at the wheel of the motorcar. A little girl ran across the road, was smacked to the ground, the life crushed out of her. When General Butler's friend protested at their not stopping, Mussolini said: "What is one life in the affairs of a State...
Outside Congress: He lives at the Alban Towers apartments when in Washington, works long hours at his office, where he likes to put his feet on his desk, drawl out his political discouragement at men and affairs. Driving his Willys-Knight motorcar is a diversion. Not interested in Society or socialite sport he goes to bed regularly at 10 p.m., sees his principal friends-Senators Borah, Johnson, Brookhart, LaFollette-mostly at the Capitol. He likes to listen to radio reports of baseball games, to smoke numerous cigars...