Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Railways have replaced neither worn-out rails nor worn-out rolling stock. Accidents increase. Matsumoto-san, the Japanese man-in-the-street, shaves in the morning with a dull razor (blades are scarce), rides to work on an overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of stairs to his office (electricity for elevators is no longer available), eats his noonday meal,(after showing his rice ration card) and goes home to bed without even the comfort of his much-loved steaming hot-water bath (charcoal is scarce); and wonders about glory...
...Prince of Germany. He married Vladimir's sister Kyra in 1938. Adolf Hitler is said to have encouraged the marriage and to have suggested that he might make Louis Ferdinand the Russian Tsar. In the '20s agile Louis Ferdinand studied as an apprentice mechanic at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Before World War II he was a pilot for Germany's Lufthansa airline and he has recently flown with the Luftwaffe...
...Ford Motor Co. also promised to wipe out the strong-arm Ford service squad, used in the past to enforce discipline, break union assaults on Ford's anti-union citadel...
Happy over a contract that virtually sewed up the whole motor industry, exultant over Mr. Ford's whole-hog capitulation, U.A.W. officials declared: "Agreement by the Ford Motor Co. to establish a union shop sets a pattern for the industry which, we believe, will be universally adopted before the end of another year...
...other documentaries, except a few which use professional actors to play a specific incident (e.g., a re-enacted journey to Dunkirk and back in a small motor-boat), faithfully follow the method of Spring Offensive. One, Squadron 992, takes a balloon-barrage crew through its organization and training to its ultimate destination in Scotland to protect the Firth of Forth Bridge. Another, Village School, is a heart-warming account of a day in the life of a country schoolteacher plagued with an overload of local and evacuee pupils...