Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Always, Drennen Is First," Drennen Motor Co. advertised in Birmingham. One of its mechanics held...
...scene last week of one more conflict between the British and Italian Navies and one more conflict in official reports. A big British convoy, carrying troops and supplies from England and Australia to reinforce the Middle East armies, was attacked under cover of night. The Italians said their motor torpedo boats sank six merchant vessels in the convoy, some of them filled with troops, of whom 3,000 drowned. A British cruiser of the Sydney class, chasing the attackers after dawn, was heavily hit by artillery fire from the Eritrean shore...
...German High Command claimed a total of 327,000 tons shot out of British merchant convoys by U-boats last week-26 ships out of one convoy. The Germans claimed a foray by their motor-torpedo boats close to the British coast which sank more tonnage, took 40 Britons prisoner. They claimed another raid by German destroyers in the mouth of Bristol Channel, in which they engaged a British cruiser squadron, torpedoing one vessel. They said they sank a British submarine off Le Havre. They claimed that their coast artillery kept Britain's Channel patrol of destroyers bottled...
...biggest accounts in the U. S. From Philadelphia's N. W. Ayer & Son, Henry Ford took some $4,000,000 worth of business (all his Ayer advertising except radio), split it between two other agencies. Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, which already had the motor-maker's branch and dealer advertising, got the Ford car advertising. To Detroit's Maxon, Inc., which took over the Lincoln-Zephyr account from Ayer last summer went the Mercury account. For Maxon and McCann, this was good news. For Ayer, it was a serious plucking...
...small but incessant waves. They made air-raid alarms last longer than ever, interrupting civilian life and preying upon morale more persistently than ever. Bombs were dropped more indiscriminately than ever, yet sometimes with more wickedly calculated aim. For every now & then a lone pilot would cut his motor, glide daringly down and plant his load in a thoroughfare crowded with pedestrians going to work, on a cathedral, a university, a hospital, a railroad station. The Germans called these the "triphammer" blows of "total air war." The British admitted it was the most thoroughgoing treatment they had yet received. Their...