Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this black period of its 30-year existence Graham-Paige could have taken the easy way of bankruptcy. Instead, it: 1) got a $2,000,000 RFC loan; 2) raised an additional $300,000 from private sources; 3) made a deal with ailing Hupp Motor Car Corp. (1939 production: 1,000 cars...
Plugging along at a good clip, with a night mistral lashing her buttocks, the Italian motor ship Orazio last week made for Barcelona. She lay 38 miles south of Toulon. Below decks slept 412 passengers -an aviator with his two small children, four nuns warm in their cotton gowns, the noble counselor of the Italian Embassy in Chile, merchants, soldiers, teachers, tourists. On the bridge the petty officers mumbled against French wind, and against the French contraband authorities who had detained the Orazio four hours to search her and take off some Germans. Captain Michele Schiano was a happy...
Suddenly the port motor backfired. Its forward cylinders went haywire. Explosion followed explosion. A lubricating line cracked and the oil caught. Panicked oilers tried to climb above decks, but the leaping flames caught them like crickets in a grass fire. Some one notified Radio Operator Filippo Perrona. He began tapping SOS. But within four minutes fire had reached the wireless room, in the topmost superstructure...
...violinists prefer to play the old instruments. The reason: they are easier to play. Through some mysterious process inherent in aging, the violin becomes mechanically more responsive-it begins to "speak" a fraction of a second sooner when force is applied to the strings. Dr. Saunders experimented with a motor-operated machine which bowed the violins by elastic celluloid disks in such a way that the force required to produce a singing tone could be measured. In the old violins the force required was slightly less...
...attended the brief (20 minutes) Senate session that day. In the afternoon he read his mail and inquired about a Negro woman who had asked him to get her a job. He requested his young clerk, Charles Corker, to pick him up in the park around 4:30 and motor him home. "Are you sure you have the time?" twice asked Borah of Idaho, mindful that the stripling had pre-law classes to attend. Reassured, overcoated (without the blanket), the Senator trudged out of the office, along the echoing basement corridor, across Delaware Avenue to the park. His frail frame...