Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through the small hours. Frank Frewin Pinnock, 50, a London businessman arrested for reckless driving after a motor crash, pleaded "a mental blackout...
...powers, including conscription, to Acting Governor Major Eric Aldhelm Torlogh Dutton. He called to the colors two of the island's three volunteer military units. Two officers commandeered a machine from a private estate and did what no Governor of Bermuda has ever done: toured the island by motor car, inspecting defense posts...
Instead, Mayor Jarman (himself a professional photographer and restorer of paintings) locked the doors of the room where the pictures were hung, imprisoning the artist's raincoat and lunch. Munnings retired, red-faced, returned presently with a motor lorry, demanded his own 15 can vases. Onto the lorry he was allowed to load them and away he rumbled...
...steep and slippery grade ahead. With all four wheels locked, the industry slithered down from a top weekly production of 90,280 (at the end of March) and skidded to a dismal pace of 32,445 (during the first week in May). Instead of crashing at the bottom, the motor industry stepped on the throttle, succeeded in topping an unexpected rise to 81,070 a week by the end of June...
...principal finished product (gasoline) by a half-cent a gallon in 42 States where Consolidated's wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Refining Co., has filling stations. This was an invitation for the rest of the business to follow suit and get some of the profits in a year when motor fuel sales were running nearly 5% over record...