Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please correct "In 48 years of motor making, Ford has never sold a six-cylinder car" (TIME, Sept...
Died. Dr. Glenn Frank, 52, longtime educator and GOPundit, candidate for Wisconsin's Republican nomination for U. S. Senator; and Reporter Glenn Frank Jr., 21, his son; in a motor accident en route to a speaking engagement; near Green Bay, Wis. When in 1925 Dr. Frank resigned as editor-in-chief of Century Magazine, became the University of Wisconsin's famed "boy president," he was first welcomed, finally ousted (1937) by Progressive Governor Phillip F. La Follette. Fortnight ago Dr. Frank had rescued an injured motorist (TIME, Sept...
...advised that all students with out-of-state license plates communicate with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, on 100 Nachua Street, either in writing or in person. In case of an accident in which a student's car is uninsured and the driver is ignorant of the law, severe penalties may be imposed...
...Rumanian soldiers held Jimbola, and Army discipline was decisive. The soldiers stopped the taxi gunmen and the pursuing locomotive. Scared Carol got over the border into Yugoslavia with some 30 of his palace clique. He took with him in freight cars attached to the royal train three handsome motor cars and 30 truckloads of valuables...
Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...