Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although this state does not restrict the operation of "foreign" motor vehicles, it does place a limit on the number of days for which men from some states may drive an out of state automobile without having to register it in Massachusetts. There is no uniformity in this law, as some states have unlimited time, and the others very greatly...
Students coming from certain states, such as California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and some two dozen others are fortunate in that the may operate any motor vehicle licensed in any state, while men not from these states must hold either a Massachusetts license, or one from the state in which the car is registered...
Hugh Drum showed himself as foxy as ever. On the first day of the battle, he sent a young lieutenant and a motorized cavalry patrol on a 200-mile run around his left end to see what they could find. One of his motorcycle men turned up next day with just what the boss wanted-the Reds' combat plans. The patrol had raided a motor park far in the rear, swiped a batch of marked maps and combat orders and made off with them...
Summing up aircraft industry's prodigious wartime growth, Aviation calculated its manufacturing backlog at $8,343,000,000. Biggest was the yule log on Curtiss-Wright's hearth, only $5 million less than a billion. Second largest: Ford Motor Co. (engines, four-motored bombers) with $736 million. Third: Consolidated Aircraft, $725 million...
Slow-spoken Homer Price was orphaned at eleven, at 16 went to work as a machinist. During World War I he machined for the U.S. Navy; after the Armistice he got his job at the Pen. Because his wife and daughter were interested in outboard motor racing, Homer Price in 1923 bought a bench drill press and lathe, installed them in his dining room, made parts for outboard motors which he sold commercially. (That is how the Cleveland Pump people heard about him.) His wife "is more at home in a machine shop than in a kitchen...