Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soaked waste to the ship's fuel tanks. When all was ready, Very signal pistols and long matches were used to touch off the fire everywhere at once. Within an hour of ordering his ship's destruction, Captain Daehne slid last down a rope into his motor launch, confident that no Briton could board what soon became a sinking inferno...
...husky, smiling Warren Courtland Mac Farlane. In 1933, when Messrs. Peek and Johnson were sowing the seeds of the New Deal, the accident of Depression put Minneapolis-Moline $1,541,000 in the red and a motor accident broke President Mac Farlane's back. Two years later Minneapolis-Moline netted $170,000, and indomitable President Mac Farlane, in his wheel chair, flew 15,000 miles around South America drumming up business. In 1938 Minneapolis-Moline had a profit of $727,000, and President Mac Farlane was riding horses for amusement...