Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the week he wrote the 48 State Governors asking them to conserve rubber by limiting maximum road speeds of all motor vehicles to 40 miles per hour, and to require frequent checking of tires for possible repair and retreading. Reason: the nation's tires on its 30,000,000 vehicles must last as long as possible...
...planning the building, Ford Motor Co.'s drafting room used five miles of blueprint paper a day, seven days a week, for six months...
Detroit v. the Axis. In Manhattan last week some 360 members of the Society of Automotive Engineers inspected the motor of a Nazi twin-engined Junkers bomber shot down over England. They took it apart, put it together again, fiddled with screw drivers and flashlights-and smiled...
...Nazi motor was a designer's dream: the designers had used complicated parts, scarce materials. But by Detroit's notions of mass production it was a little too tricky to be really good: it was a hard motor to put on an assembly line. In making war machines, the Axis had a head start, but Detroit was confident it had a head start in know...
...great-grandfather, but he is still lively, curious and productive. His shoulders are stooped by his years, his neat salt-&-pepper suits hang loosely on his spare limbs. But his body is still tough, his bright eyes dart restlessly as the fingers of a machine. The Ford Motor Co. is, as ever, a one-man show...