Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented by the day from civilians to fill out the National Guard's complement of rolling stock...
...Announced by Ford Motor Co. (which refused to build Rolls-Royce aircraft engines if the British were to get any) was an agreement with United Aircraft Corp. to build 4,000 Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engines...
...oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...
Having sold his $2,500,000 yacht Corsair IV to the British Government last spring, J. P. Morgan chartered the 115-ft. motor yacht Inishowen V for the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise, ran aground off Fishers Island...
...Buick at half the pay. Two-fisted, paternal Tycoon Chrysler drove himself and his men, thought "the one reasonably sure way to get ahead was to do just a little bit more than was expected of you." Two salvage jobs he did on moribund companies-Willys-Overland and Maxwell Motor Corp.-led to the birth of Chrysler Corp., which boomed even in the depression. In 1933 Chrysler outproduced Ford for the first time; same year Chrysler stock multiplied seven times in value...