Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Aug. 7 states, "For the past two years Japan has bought from the U. S. well over half the high-test motor fuel, motors, machinery, scrap metals and scrap rubber essential to her Chinese conquest...
Remember the Warwick? On St. George's Eve, 1918, she put out to sea for Zeebrugge, leading 74 scarecrow vessels- a nearly obsolete cruiser, some ferryboats, three old light cruisers loaded with concrete, two ancient submarines packed with explosives, and a swarm of tiny motor launches and smoke-boats. Their job was to block the Bruges Canal, from which U-boats had been darting on their deadly errands. As they set out, Vice Admiral Roger Keyes signaled the others: "St. George for England," and one answered: "May we give the dragon's tail a damned good twist...
Racing wildly down the track, Engineer Hecox reached a telephone an hour later. When rescuers arrived by special trains and motor, 20 were dead, 60 injured...
...chest-sized inhalator which he wears sitting propped up in bed. From month to month the period during which he can breathe by himself has been extended (record to date: one hour and three minutes) but during these periods, as a precaution, he wears the small inhalator with the motor shut...
...Antarctic last year were all but a few of the world's 40 floating factories and scores of killer ships (small motor vessels from which the whales are harpooned, then towed to a floating factory). Their catch: 46,039 whales; 3,340,330 barrels of oil (over 90% of the world total). Of this the U. S. share was about 3%. Using Norwegian killer ships, the Ulysses caught over 1,400 whales, boiled them down, sold the oil to U. S. soap manufacturers at an average price of about 5? a pound. Ready to send his refinery back...