Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trend. In Coffeyville, Kans., the Paul Helphinstines set out to visit friends in Ohio. They traveled by homemade motor scooter...
Like the oldtime housewife who used to hitch the cradle to her rocking chair, letting the motion of the chair rock the baby, U.S. airplane motormakers last week were harnessing airplane engines to generators-thus just about licking the serious wartime shortage in electricity. One Midwest motor plant is generating several million kilowatt hours a month, more than half the power needed to run the plant at capacity...
...waste in such motor tests is prodigious. A 2,200 h.p. engine burns up some 2,000 gallons during a twelve-hour test. And plane engines cannot burn anything but precious 100 octane...
...Blue Network last week went the two fattest news "show" contracts of the year: a 15-minute commentary by Raymond Gram Swing for Socony-Vacuum four times a week at 10 p.m., and a 15-minute newscast by Earl Godwin for Ford Motor Co. at 8 p.m. daily...
With the old electric motors and batteries (which accounted for about one-sixth of a submarine's weight) eliminated, the U-boat is more maneuverable, and with the space gained, the torpedo load can be increased, the cruising range stepped up. Even some of the smaller U-boats now have ranges up to 12,000 miles. They carry smaller torpedo tubes, allowing standardization of torpedo manufacture for aircraft, motor torpedo boats and submarines...