Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After cavorting aloft for almost half an hour, the new bomber whipped low over the airport, climbed again to 3,000 feet and soared along at 300 m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...
...celebrate their new opposition, Presidents Thomas & Martin last week debated whether Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., contributed to U. A. W.'s split by dangling a phoney agreement in front of Homer Martin. Said Mr. Bennett, at last speaking for himself...
...father of oarsman Howard Turner '40 was so interested in the new machine that he leaned over too much in an attempt to see the intricacies of the streamlined motor. His pocketbook dropped into the water, went sailing through the complicated machinery, and came out the other end unscathed. All the bills were recovered, just slightly the worse for the experience...
...expected to turn out the Democratic rascals in droves, but for all Arthur James's talk of economy and of firing 1,000 surplus State employes, his House of Representatives, like George Earle's Legislature before it, immediately had to divert $12,000,000 from motor, liquor, insurance funds to finance relief...
...builder of high-output motors to stick to the development of the liquid-cooled straight-line engine is Allison Engineering Co. In its little plant close by Indianapolis' famed motor speedway, its engineers and craftsmen, working on small orders for the U. S. Army, have kept the spark of in-line design firing, are now ready to go places. Already powered by Allison V-12's is the Army's twin-motored fighter, the Airacuda. More recently, the 1,000-horsepower Allison was built into a modification of the Army's snub-nosed Curtiss...