Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single-engined Curtiss P-4O was flown to Detroit, there to be gone over by Henry Ford's bright old eyes. If he puts his mind to it, Henry Ford probably can produce planes in quantity; he certainly can produce aircraft engines. This week he announced that Ford Motor Co. is going to turn out a British (Rolls-Royce type) liquid-cooled motor...
Said Henry Ford to an interviewer: "If it became necessary, Ford Motor Co. could, with the counsel of men like Lindbergh and Rickenbacker, under our own supervision and without meddling by Government agencies, swing into production of 1,000 airplanes a day." Said William Knudsen, asked whether General Motors could do it too: "I guess we could if we laid plans...
...m.p.h. More startling still was the fact that he drove around the two-and-a-half-mile, brick-&-asphalt oval without a mechanic at his side-relying on a mirror to inform him of what his opponents were doing behind his back. Since that day, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been the proving ground for many another automotive innovation: balloon tires, four-wheel brakes, Ethyl gasoline, straight-eight motors. But to auto-racing fans, the annual Indianapolis Memorial Day classic is just a gigantic picnic, the Kentucky Derby of the horseless carriage...
...other big disappointment was a war-baby issue - Boeing Airplane Co., which has given balding, brusque & burly President Philip Johnson plenty of grief as a result of its costly development of four-motor planes, is $4,740,000 in hock to RFC. Of 360,979 shares offered stock holders at $16 a share (mainly to repay the loan), last week 88,248 were still un subscribed and went on public sale. The stock was quoted on the market at 15 and a fraction, but some individual syndicate members were offering wholesale blocks of it at 15, even 14, finding...
Down over his balding head Igor Sikorsky pulled his too-small hat. With his right hand on the control stick, his feet on the rudder pedals, he grasped with his left hand the lever that controls the lift of the motor by varying the pitch of the blades. Mechanics (who had held the helicopter with ropes while Designer Sikorsky learned to fly it) backed away. He pulled back the pitch control lever. Into the air jumped Sikorsky's bug. Fifteen to 20 feet off the ground it came to a stop, hung there. Sikorsky moved the control stick forward...