Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Brock flew eastward across the Atlantic and Eurasia as far as Tokyo. Their fame helped set them up in business at Detroit as the Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp. sales agents. Last week at Detroit, Flyer Schlee was turning over a plane propeller by hand, to start the motor. He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor. His motor did not start. The propeller kicked back, struck him, tore flesh, broke an arm bone, concussed his brain. Detroit surgeons found that he had a fair chance to live...
...deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Out of storm-clouded skies over Tampa dropped an airplane from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...
...like Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., sold by mail tires and other automotive accessories. Last week Sears, Roebuck decided to sell the automobile itself. Details concerning price and type of car had not been decided. Announcement was made, however, that the car would be manufactured by Gardner Motor Co., Inc.* and that Sears, Roebuck & Co. would distribute...
...were planning small cars, an English automobile man was announcing the invasion of the U. S. market with a small English car. The invader was Sir Herbert Austin; the car the Austin Seven. The Austin will be manufactured at Butler, Pa., by a U. S. branch of Austin Motor...
...Austin represents the first serious foreign attempt at competing with the U. S. motor car. Said Samuel H. Vallance: "We are not proceeding with the theory that there is anything faulty with the American small cars. . . but in size and economy of operation the Austin Seven is in a class by itself...