Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decks. Simultaneously her captain spotted a midget submarine's shadow within yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...
There are two seasons in Malaya: the wet season and the wetter season. The latter, which is about to begin, makes the east side of Malaya an unbearable windswept sponge land. Landings off the coast in support of beachheads would be all but impossible. The only two motor roads on the east side are often broken by floods...
Peer. In Manhattan, a jury at a murder trial missed one of its members, found he had been arrested by the FBI as an alleged member of a ring accused of stealing $5,000,000 worth of automobile parts from Ford Motor...
...three-inch double-purpose anti-tank & aircraft gun, powerful enough to stop any tank in existence, is equipped with a secret device, which gives its gunners 500% more accuracy than can be had in any other tank today. Powered by a 1,000-h.p. Wright Cyclone-type airplane motor, the new tank is as speedy as the M-3 medium (top, 25 m.p.h.), in comparison with smaller types rides as smoothly as a limousine...
Although the law states that all motor vehicles operated in Massachusetts must have liability insurance, non-residents are permitted to drive their cars here for a total of 30 days per year without it, once a permanent place of abode (as a student) is established...