Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Clarkson Jay, 61, president of Manhattan's portly Fifth Avenue Bank, onetime president of Fierce-Arrow and board chairman of Maxwell Motor Car Co., great-great-grandson of first Chief Justice John Jay; of a coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...tests were made on a detached motor operating with complete lubrication, had no bearing whatever on what a graphite lubricant would do when the oil film was broken...
...Connor. You went to Roosevelt and O'Connor. And you'd go to Knudsen and Hillman. If a conflict over policy should arise, Knudsen & Hillman could always consult the President. But it was silly to worry about disputes between them. Even over a labor question-say, Ford Motor Co. contracts? Yes, silly. The head man of national defense in the U. S., the President said, was a fellow named Knudsenhillman...
...last year 80,000 new troops have been trained. Last week plans were announced for a costly program of mechanizing the whole Australian Army, both home-defense and expeditionary, with tanks and armored carriers to be built in the Dominion. (Each Australian division now has 2,000 motor vehicles, but few are armored.) A new mobile school of mechanization already moves from camp to camp- three trucks loaded with diagrams, models, textbooks, sound films. The Army says that although cabled technical advice from England is limited, many improvements have already been made on English mechanization. Among them: A Bren-type...
...German refugee from the galleries of Paris, London and Berlin, Curt Valentin settled in Manhattan four years ago, opened a gallery with the help of art-loving Motor Scion Walter P. Chrysler Jr., for whom he had bought many a picture. He quickly made a name as one of the most progressive and choosy of syth Street's art impresarios. But morose Impresario Valentin dislikes selling pictures, would rather have a job in a museum. Says he sadly: "Gallery business is sometimes fun, but I hate having to make money...