Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory the Italians mentioned consisted of the first action during the war of M. A. S.-motoscafi, anti-sommergibile, "motor boats against submarines." An Italian specialty, these darting little craft armed with two torpedo tubes, manned by ten men, will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes...
...pattern all over Great Britain. Liverpool and Birkenhead, the great shipping and shipbuilding centres of the west, received their first heavy bombings last week. So did Manchester, the Midlands textile centre. So did Derby, where Rolls-Royce engines are made for Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British stubbornness prevented the evacuation last week of such smashed-up places as Ramsgate, Dover, Southampton...
Died. John Patterson Green, 95, Negro lawyer born in slavery, lifelong friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr., first Negro ever elected to a judicial office (justice of the peace) in a northern State; of injuries sustained in a Labor Day motor accident; in Cleveland. In 1887 Lawyer Green promoted the idea of a legal holiday for labor. Said he last week to his wife: "I hope I can live to be 97, like my good friend, John...
This week, as several hundred thousand automobile workers returned from long Labor Day weekends, motor bigwigs held many hurried last-minute confabs before drawing the curtain on the 1941 model year. Weekly production idled around 30,000 cars last month, is expected to rise towards 115,000 or more by Thanksgiving. Charts called for 1,200,000 cars in the final 1940 quarter, boosting this year's output to a three-year high of 4,200,000, up 13% from 1939's 3,733,000. For 1941, few motormakers expect to equal the 5,016,000 cars produced...
...industry's biggest enigma was, as usual, Henry Ford. In 48 years of motor-making, Ford has never sold a six-cylinder car. But newshawks in Detroit last week heard that 400 six-cylinder engines were in the huge River Rouge Plant, guessed the 1941 Ford line would include a six. (Other sixes, especially Chevrolet and Plymouth, have cut into Ford's market, reduced him from first place in 1930 to third in 1940.) Fordmen were mum, but Ward's Automotive Reports said: "Sample [six-cylinder] models are now being turned...