Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones" did motor forth, however, without his usual police escort. He paused for a picnic lunch on Bull Run battlefield, was late for tea at his son's colonial cottage a mile from the University of Virginia campus. Faculty members assured him the boy's law study marks were satisfactory...
York World's Fair their own Empire's exhibits will consume most of the visitors' time, to the exclusion of fun on the Midway. They must leave in time to motor to Hyde Park for dinner at Mother Roosevelt's. After a quiet weekend there, they will entrain for Canada to embark for home on the battle cruiser Repulse...
...recent address before the New England regional convention of the Association of Medical Students by the noted surgeon, Dr. Hugh Cabot, on group practice gives cause for serious reflection concerning the role of the individual physician in the society of tomorrow. Just as our modern high speed motor ambulances are a far cry from the jolting buggy of the Old Country Doctor, so vast changes have taken place in the methods of medical diagnosis and treatment. No longer can the family physician carry in his little black bag all the equipment needed to restore his sick neighbor to health...
Detroit editors listened intently to some motor and oil bigwigs who said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal...
President of Packard Motor Car Co. since 1916, Alvan Macauley is a handsomely bronzed, courtly gentleman of 67 who collects fine guns, enjoys skeet shooting and British novels. At Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, he maintains just such an estate as prestige-conscious Packard ("Ask the Man Who Owns One") likes to picture in advertisements of its expensive automobiles. A perfect piece of type casting for the days when Packard catered exclusively to the carriage trade, Alvan Macauley last week stepped up to the board chairmanship. His successor: Vice President and General Manager Max M. Gilman...