Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern Mexico were so insignificant that President Lazaro Cárdenas could tour through the troubled areas all week without danger...
...after Adolf Hitler announced his new pact with Japan, the Courier-Journal declared: "We must give more and more aid to the British. We must send them planes, tanks and motor boats as fast as they are produced. . . . We must give them more of our overage destroyers . . . whenever they are needed. So long as Britain holds out, the German-Italian-Japanese alliance is frustrated...
...Ford Motor Co. led General Motors and Chrysler Corp. (producers of Pontiac, Dodge, Oldsmobile, De Soto, Chevrolet and Plymouth-other sixes). In 1940 Ford Motor Co. ranked after them...
Cameron Bradley '37 of Southboro, Mass., vice-president of the Veteran Motor Car Club of America, spends his spare time collecting old automobiles. He has 16 pre-1910 models, and is trying to add to his collection...
...Waitress Ethel Gaff saw to it that a lean, greying old man ate his luncheon in peace, stood popeyed when one of his associates left a $46 tip (for a $4 check), thought it must be a mistake. Next day in Detroit Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., explained: "I left the money purposely. . . . She did a very good job. . . particularly in keeping curiosity seekers away from Mr. Ford...