Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several army girls in uniform, wearing boots, dark-blue skirts and the army blouse. They were as far forward as advanced divisional headquarters. . . . One was a medical, one was a telegraphist, another was a motor driver, another was a clerk with an air force unit...
...spending money in Manhattan nightclubs to trucking freight and cracking down on labor agitators in his huge Terminal System Inc. of New York City, which controls among other things some 4,500 New York taxis. Firm friends, bitter enemies, a tidy fortune and fame as No. 1 expert in motor transport-all these he attained in a hurry...
Sharp-looking, energetic as a motor, he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U.S. in 1914. became, at 34, president and managing director of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals -Canada's Du Pont). Now he had become, as Viscount Halifax said last week, ''the linchpin of the vast organization built up on this side to cooperate with the U.S. Administration in all vital matters of production and supply...
...higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth as dense. Hence a 1,000-h.p. motor seven miles up will deliver only a puttering 250 h.p. without artificial respiration...
...Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...